Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To go beyond proper limits; run to an extreme.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To run out or forth; to extend.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb rare To digress.
  • verb rare To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
  • verb rare To take an excursion.

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