Understep

Quick meaning: Understep is a verb meaning Not to go as far as a boundary or limit.

Meaning

Not to go as far as a boundary or limit.

More Meanings

1. To take a step that is not far enough forward.
2. To have a gait in which the hind foot touches the ground behind the point where the front foot touches the ground.
3. A gait in which the hind feet touch the ground behind the point where the front feet touch the ground.
4. A step that acts as a base to hold something.
5. The underside of a step.
6. A movement in which one understeps.
7. Underneath a step.

Example Sentences

They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.

Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time.

The Questers were many, and fortunately the Answerer did not too often overstep or understep the mark.

For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.

Word Forms

• understeps
• understepping
• understepped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underbound, underpoint, hold, taboo, unincorporate, un-notice.

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