overstep
oh ver step
- v pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- v be superior or better than some standard
- Pelosi made clear to me that she considered Hayden, now Deputy Director of National Intelligence, an honorable man who would not overstep his bounds.
- Any overstep will be trumpeted.
- As if to prove that point, at the same time Chinese bloggers were celebrating their victory, a mainland court handed down an ugly reminder of what happens to those who overstep the .