Break and Overstep

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Break verb - To go beyond the limit of.

Usage example: a menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners

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Overstep and break are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Overstep" instead a verb "Break".

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Overstep verb - To go beyond the limit of.

Usage example: the principal overstepped her authority in ordering everyone to remain in the unheated school

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Break and overstep are semantically related. You can use "Break" instead a verb "Overstep".

Nearby Word: overstepping

While much of their activity involves the enforcement of reasonable laws that the protagonists break, it's generally implied, and eventually confirmed, that they have something of a tendency to overstep their bounds.

Source: The Government

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