different between dupe vs overreach

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?p/
• Hyphenation: dupe

Etymology 1

From French duper, from Middle French duppe.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dupe

Related terms

• dupery

Translations

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of duplicate.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
2. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
3. (informal) A duplicate.

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. (transitive) To duplicate.

Synonyms

• double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate

Antonyms

• dedupe, halve

Anagrams

• E'd up, pued

Bube

Noun

dupe

1. ghost

Descendants

• English: duppy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dyp?/
• Hyphenation: du?pe

Noun

dupe m (plural dupes)

1. victim

Synonyms

• slachtoffer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyp/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /dz?p/

Verb

dupe

1. first-person singular present indicative of duper
2. third-person singular present indicative of duper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of duper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of duper
5. second-person singular imperative of duper

Noun

dupe f (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived, see dupe.

Further reading

• “dupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dup?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûpe/

Noun

d?pe n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (vulgar) ass

   Synonym: gùzica

Declension

English

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- +? reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v???i?t??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?(?)??it??/
  • Rhymes: -i?t?
• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?i?t??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?(?)??it??/
• Hyphenation: over?reach

Verb

overreach (third-person singular simple present overreaches, present participle overreaching, simple past and past participle overreached)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:transcend

   1. (transitive, property law) 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.
2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.
3. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.

   Synonyms: cheat, defraud; see also Thesaurus:deceive

   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, II.4:

     Don't you see that, by this step, I overreach him? I shall be entitled to the girl's fortune without settling a ducat on her!
5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
6. (transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit. [from 16th c.]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• overreacher
• overreaching (noun)
• overreachingly

Translations

Noun

overreach (countable and uncountable, plural overreaches)

1. (also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much; overextension.
2. (equestrianism) Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

Derived terms

• overreach boot

Translations

References

Further reading

• overreaching (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia