Crossword-Solution: OVERSTEP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overstep | v. t. | To step over or beyond; to transgress. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERSTEP | anagram | PREVOTES, STEPOVER |
We have 28 clues for the answer “OVERSTEP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cross a boundary | 1 answer |
| Walk across, having finished backing favourites | 1 answer |
| Take too much for granted. | 1 answer |
| Surpass, as one's bounds | 1 answer |
| Go beyond, as bounds | 1 answer |
| Go beyond, as authority | 1 answer |
| Go beyond the bounds | 1 answer |
| Exceed, in away | 1 answer |
| Exceed, as one's bounds | 1 answer |
| Exceed, as one's authority | 1 answer |
| Exceed, as a boundary | 1 answer |
| Exceed improperly | 1 answer |
| Go beyond the limit | 2 answers |
| Pass beyond | 2 answers |
| Beyond the limit | 10 answers |
| BEYOND A ___ | 10 answers |
| ADVANCE BEYOND THE USUAL LIMIT | 11 answers |
| Go too far | 13 answers |
| Transgress | 15 answers |
| go beyond | 18 answers |
| interlope | 18 answers |
| infringe | 25 answers |
| Go back (on) | 29 answers |
| Encroach | 29 answers |
| behave badly | 41 answers |
| Mis-behave | 54 answers |
| Exceed | 59 answers |
| Pass | 187 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERSTEP (5)
There were certain limits which its dwellers could not overstep; but unfortunately for them, these limits were poorly defined.
With all his faults, Trenor had the safeguard of his traditions, and was the less likely to overstep them because they were so purely instinctive.
According to that, each one may take what place he will, may beautify and adorn it, if he can; it is allowable: but he must never allow himself to overstep the limit which separates him from another.
The little Lambinet abode with him as the picture he _would_ have bought—the particular production that had made him for the moment overstep the modesty of nature.
When the young man had bidden the company a rapid business-like farewell, tempered in Suzette’s case by the exact degree of tender intimacy that it would have been considered improper to omit or overstep, Elaine turned to her expectant cousin with an air of cordial congratulation.
Quotes with OVERSTEP (3)
(Ivan) Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you!(The devil) You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to that pleasure. Oh, I love the dreams of my ardent young friends, quivering with eagerness for life! 'There are new men,' you decided last spring, when you were meaning to come here, 'they propose to destroy everything and begin with cannibalism. Stupid fellows! they didn't ask my advice! I maintain that nothing need be destroyed, that we only need to de…
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).