oltrepassare — meaning in English

English meaning

• break verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
• overreach verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
• override verb To take priority over, or cancel out, an existing decision, rule, or system.
• overstep verb To go further than is allowed or appropriate; to cross a line.

Senses

oltrepassare is used for these senses in English:

• break (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
• overreach (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. [from 14th c.]
• override (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
• overstep (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.

break — full definition

1. verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
2. verb To stop working properly; to malfunction.
3. verb To fail to keep (a promise, rule, or law).
4. verb To interrupt or bring an end to something continuous.
5. noun A short pause or rest from an activity.

overreach — full definition

1. verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
2. 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.
3. verb To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
4. verb Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.

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