überschreiten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- exceed verb To be greater than, or go beyond, a certain amount or limit.
- overreach verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- overriding adj More important than anything else in the situation; taking priority.
- overrun verb To spread over or invade a place in large numbers, often taking full control of it.
- overstep verb To go further than is allowed or appropriate; to cross a line.
- surpass verb To do better than, or go beyond, someone or something.
- transcend verb To go beyond the usual limits of something.
- violate verb To break or fail to comply with a law, rule, or agreement.
Senses
überschreiten is used for these senses in English:
- exceed (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- exceed (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- go past To surpass a boundary; to go by a limit.
- overreach (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. [from 14th c.]
- overrun (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- overrun (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- overstep (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- run over (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
exceed — full definition
- verb To be greater than, or go beyond, a certain amount or limit.
- verb To surpass or do better than something else.
overreach — full definition
- verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- verb To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (UK, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
- verb To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
- verb Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.