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# overstretch

«overstretch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stretch it too far and hurt it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (overstretch, overstretches, overstretched, overstretching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To overstretch a muscle is to stretch it too far and hurt it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#m1)

2) To overstretch yourself, a budget or people is to make them do more than they can manage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and health: warm up and don't overstretch. In news and adult life: overstretched hospitals, schools or budgets.

### examples

- Don't overstretch when you warm up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x1)
- She overstretched her leg in gymnastics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x2)
- The nurses are overstretched this winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x3)
- Buying a big house would overstretch their budget. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x4)
- The army was overstretched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x5)
- I overstretched myself by joining five clubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/#x6)

### note

Past: overstretched. Adjective: overstretched (too busy). Healthy stretching should never hurt.

### In the corpora

- [A strain is a muscle injury: some muscle fibres are overstretched, often when you sprint before warming up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overstretch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overstretch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.