Overstep vs Overtake - What's the difference?
overstep | overtake |
To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
As verbs the difference between overstep and overtake
is that overstep is to go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions while overtake is to pass a more slowly moving object.overstep
English
Verb
- That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.
Derived terms
* overstep the markAnagrams
*overtake
English
Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."