0 to go further than what is considered acceptable or correct: --
The bad language in that show overstepped the limits/boundaries of what should be allowed on television.
1 to go beyond what is permitted or acceptable: --
Anyone who questioned such loyalty in ways liable to disturb the peace had de facto overstepped the boundary of acceptable public debate.
The scholarship represented not only varied in method and approach but also expanded the mind as it overstepped disciplinary boundaries.
Because his attitude toward the early stage of this process is usually favorable, the overstepping comes to seem inevitable.
The total hours spent by farm women in productive and domestic activities exceeded 3,000 a year and overstepped, although only marginally, their husbands' working hours.
Invoking human rights is not meant to block critical dialogue; instead it provides a call to responsibility that cannot be easily overstepped.
The elder's opponents and detractors claim that he has gone too far, that he has overstepped the bounds of acceptable discipline.
I overstepped my role as a patient and found myself in difficult waters.
Learned heuristics that avoid the design generation that oversteps site boundaries.
