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overextension

n. The state or quality of being overextended.

Usage examples of "overextension".

Frank was resting after the drug-induced overextension that had allowed him to complete the overland journey.

The tower link is unavailable, said Bug, due to overextension of the houseputer processors.

The conventional wisdom is that it's impossible, as massive overextensions of debt incurred in the recent frenzy of buyouts, and block stock purchases have left many of the nation's industrial giants, both corporate and individual, jointly and severally, with empty pockets, TM ROAD TO ONAHA 563 red faces, and, in a number of cases, a sudden desire to leave the country.

That overextension had to be bait—but if she did not take it, she would never learn the lesson that Kahn obviously intended.