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Circumvent vs Overreach - What's the difference?

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Circumvent is a related term of overreach.


As verbs the difference between circumvent and overreach

is that circumvent is to avoid or get around something; to bypass while overreach is to reach above or beyond in any direction.

As a noun overreach is

the act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

circumvent

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to avoid or get around something; to bypass
  • to surround or besiege
  • to outwit or outsmart

    • Related terms

    * circumvention * circumventive

    overreach

    English

    Noun

    (overreaches)
  • The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
  • The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.
  • *2010 , Brian Montopoli, CBS News Obama: People Saw "Overreach" in My Actions :
    • But, you know, I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, 'This is looking like potential overreach .'"

    Verb

  • To reach above or beyond in any direction.
  • To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
  • * 1594 , , III. ii. 144:
    • We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio,
  • * 1599 , , V. i. 78:
    • This might be / the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches ; / one that would circumvent God, might it not?
  • To reach too far
  • (of horses) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot.
  • (nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
    • (Shakespeare)