Usually means: Exceeding boundaries or limits imposed.
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  1. overstep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overstep: Merriam-Webster
  3. overstep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overstep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overstep: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overstep: Vocabulary.com
  7. overstep: Wordnik
  8. overstep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overstep: Wiktionary
  10. overstep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overstep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overstep: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overstep, overstep: Dictionary.com
  14. overstep (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overstep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Overstep (album), Overstep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overstep: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overstep: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overstep: Rhymezone
  20. overstep: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overstep: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overstep: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overstep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overstep: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. overstep: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. overstep: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
verb:  To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
verb:  To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
noun:  A gait in which the hind foot touches ground in front of where the front foot touches the ground.
noun:  A movement in which one oversteps.
noun:  A decision or action that goes too far.

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