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Overstep

🔄 Synonyms of "Overstep"

7 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
passverb	To change place.
transcendverb	(transitive) To pass beyond the limits of something.
transgressverb	(transitive) To act in violation of some law.
topnoun	The highest or uppermost part of something.
trespassnoun	(law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
exceedverb	(transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
go pastverb	To surpass a boundary; to go by a limit.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Overstep"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
transgressverb	(transitive) To act in violation of some law.
exceedverb	(transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
transcendverb	(transitive) To pass beyond the limits of something.
go pastverb	To surpass a boundary; to go by a limit.
passverb	To change place.
topverb	To cover on the top or with a top.
trespassverb	(law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
surpassverb	(transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.
overrideverb	(transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
outstripverb	To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
overcomeverb	(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
overruleverb	(transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
turnverb	To make a non-linear physical movement.
presumeverb	(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
bypassverb	To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
overtakeverb	To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
switchverb	(transitive) To exchange.
crossverb	To make or form a cross.
overreachnoun	(also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
go too farverb	(idiomatic) To exceed an unstated limit, especially of acceptable behaviour.