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overstepping Meaning & Definition

What Does Overstepping Mean?

Overstepping is used as a verb meaning present participle and gerund of overstep.

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.
To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
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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That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.

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