See overstep in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"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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"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.",
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"sense": "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.",
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"sense": "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": "propasarse"
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"sense": "To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.",
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"ref": "2012, Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks: Midwest Edition, →ISBN, page 27:",
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"ref": "2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, →ISBN, page 49:",
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"ref": "2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall, page 45:",
"text": "[…] an overstep of their legal bounds as an organization of any kind, and a violation of your civil rights.",
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