Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To leap across or over.
- transitive verb To defeat (oneself or one's purpose) by going too far.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To leap over; overstep or go beyond; pass over or move from side to side of by leaping, literally or figuratively; hence, to omit; pass over.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
leap over, tojump over, to cross byjumping . - verb idiomatic To
omit - verb idiomatic To
ignore
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb leave undone or leave out
- verb defeat (oneself) by going too far
- verb jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
Etymologies
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Examples
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“So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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“So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Both show how women can overleap the traditional bonds imposed on them.
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In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital.
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In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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It was painfully clear that he must do something without further delay, must either conquer want or overleap it.
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The phenomena of which Psychology treats are familiar to us, but they are for the most part indefinite; they relate to a something inside the body, which seems also to overleap the limits of space.
Theaetetus 2007
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Here the lovers raised barriers between themselves and social intercourse, barriers which no creature could overleap, and here the happy days of Switzerland were lived over again.
The Deserted Woman 2007
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Those occasions are kept with some marks of distinction, but they rarely overleap the bounds of happy returns and a pudding.
Bleak House 2007
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Paris, besides, is the capital of the intellectual world, the stage on which you will succeed; overleap the gulf that separates us quickly.
Two Poets 2007
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