überschreiten — meaning in English

English meaning

• exceed verb To be greater than, or go beyond, a certain amount or limit.
• overreach verb To stretch out further than is normal or sensible.
• 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

1. verb To be greater than, or go beyond, a certain amount or limit.
2. verb To surpass or do better than something else.

overreach — full definition

1. verb To stretch out further than is normal or sensible.
2. verb (law) To end someone's claim on a property by selling or mortgaging it, so that their right passes instead to the money paid for it.
3. verb To go further than is proper, or further than one is able; to overextend oneself.
4. verb Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.

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