noun
definition
A gait in which the hind foot touches ground in front of where the front foot touches the ground.
definition
A movement in which one oversteps.
verb
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To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
example
That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.
definition
To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
definition
To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
Examples of overstep in a Sentence
Do n't overstep yourself or rely on all your dreams coming true.
It is impossible to overstep the limits of self-consciousness; whatever words I use, whatever notions I have, must refer to and find their meaning in facts of consciousness.
How can phones be made open except for certain parties who overstep bounds?
Both partners in the dance should always be aware of where their own hands are, and not overstep these bounds.
The Stoics had taught them to overstep the political boundaries of states and nationalities, and rise from the Hellenic to a universal human consciousness.
What Austria desired to be was a state at once conciliatory and just, and it opposed no national demand which did not overstep the limits of state security; but this loosing of bonds unchained at the same time a number of national passions before which the state retired step by step.
All due weight being given to these various considerations, it must be admitted, nevertheless, that Pitt did overstep the limits within which inconsistency is usually regarded as venial.
When the first century of the middle ages came to an end the Church had not only reoccupied the former territory of the Empire, she had already begun to overstep its limits.