circumvent vs overreach

circumvent

verb
  • to avoid or get around something; to bypass 

  • to outwit or outsmart 

  • to surround or besiege 

overreach

verb
  • To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability. 

  • To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (Britain, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party. 

  • To sail on one tack farther than is necessary. 

  • To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. 

  • Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot. 

noun
  • An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension. 

  • Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action. 

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