Hyphenation of overextend

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word overextend? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

overex-tend

Definitions of overextend:

1.	Strain excessively He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment

Synonyms of overextend:

verb	overstrain, strain, extend

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