overstepping

Verb

overstep (third-person singular simple present oversteps, present participle overstepping, simple past and past participle overstepped)

1. (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
   • That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.

   Synonyms:

   transgress, outstep

2. To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
   • 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.1907, University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report - Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
3. To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:overstep.

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