"overstep" meaning in English

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          "text": "That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.",
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          "ref": "1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:",
          "text": "As a result, there was a gain of 3½ min. from Goraghwood to Dundalk, which we reached 2 min. early. Nevertheless, the customs officials succeeded in overstepping their 13-min. time allowance, and we left 1 min. late.",
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        "(transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions."
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "تَخَطَّى"
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          "roman": "prestǎpvam",
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "ultrapassar"
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "overtræde"
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "outrepasser"
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "oltrepassare"
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          "roman": "perestupátʹ",
          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "переступа́ть"
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "propasarse"
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          "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
          "word": "överträda"
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          "ref": "1907, University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report - Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station:",
          "text": "As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs.",
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          "ref": "1945, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 60, page 499:",
          "text": "If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.",
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          "ref": "2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:",
          "text": "Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).",
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        "To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward."
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        "To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground."
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          "text": "Therefore, an understep (where the hind track lies behind the front track) is probably a slower gait than a direct-registering walk where the hind lies on top of the front, and both are probably slower than an overstep walk, where the hind track registers beyond the front track.",
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          "text": "As a result, there was a gain of 3½ min. from Goraghwood to Dundalk, which we reached 2 min. early. Nevertheless, the customs officials succeeded in overstepping their 13-min. time allowance, and we left 1 min. late.",
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          "ref": "2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:",
          "text": "Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "taḵaṭṭā",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "تَخَطَّى"
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      "roman": "prestǎpvam",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "престъпвам"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "prekračvam",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "ultrapassar"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "overtræde"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "outrepasser"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "oltrepassare"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perestupátʹ",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "переступа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "propasarse"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
      "word": "överträda"
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