2. Adjective. extended or expanded beyond a safe limit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overextended
1. overextend [v] - See also: overextend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overextended
Literary usage of Overextended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Nation's Shame: Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect in the U.S. by Jill Stewart (1996)
"Undertrained. or Overextended The NCPCA estimates that about 42 percent of the
children who died have had previous or current contact with a CPS agency. ..."
2. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"In rare instances it is the direct result of traumatism, as when the limb has
been suddenly forced into an overextended position, and the posterior ..."
3. Time to Act: A Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms edited by Harold L. Volkmer (1998)
"Increasingly, research and extension institutions are underfunded and overextended.
This is where partnerships with community-based organizations, ..."
4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"The knee was overextended, the tubercle of the tibia very prominent, ... The knee
could be overextended at will; reduction under ether was found to be ..."
5. Therapeutic Gazette (1897)
"Rigid antisepsis was aimed at, and the forearm and hand placed upon a splint,
with the thumb overextended on a wire arm. The wound healed by first intention ..."
6. Commercial Paper by Roger Ward Babson, Ralph May (1916)
"In addition to the increased security to the lender on such paper, the English
system tends to prevent the borrower from becoming overextended and thus ..."
7. An Anatomical and surgical study of fractures of the lower end of the humerus by Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (1910)
"By repeated blows with a heavy mallet on the overextended palm, with the elbow
flexed ... By blows on the overextended palm with the elbow fully extended. ..."
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