loiter vs overstep

loiter

noun
  • A standing or strolling about without any aim or purpose. 

verb
  • To remain at a certain place instead of moving on. 

  • To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly. 

  • For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target. 

overstep

noun
  • A movement in which one oversteps. 

  • A gait in which the hind foot touches ground in front of where the front foot touches the ground. 

verb
  • To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward. 

  • To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions. 

  • To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground. 

How often have the words loiter and overstep occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )