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What does overstepped mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of overstep
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He has his orders, and would be marked for discouragement if he overstepped them.
This decision has been roundly attacked by the mining industry, which is spreading the falsehood that the board overstepped its bounds.
Richard held his own against the IM, but overstepped the time limit and lost.
But the defence still wants some of the items disqualified, claiming that investigators overstepped the limits of the search warrant.
The defence claimed police overstepped their bounds during that search and the search of a private detective's office.
The city claims that Carvin showed poor judgment and overstepped his authority in raising issues of attorney bill padding.

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