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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overleap .
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Examples
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Modern improvement has gone overhead on its high-level viaduct; and the extended city has cleanly overleapt, and left unaltered, what was once the summer retreat of its comfortable citizens.
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And, in short, that Edward was now (the intermediate steps of cornet and lieutenant being overleapt with great agility) Captain
Waverley 2004
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Bear roared triumphantly in response, then overleapt him on the floor and began pawing at the airplane door.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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This was the only sort of body that could have overleapt the bear and woken her with a kiss.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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Better were it to have overleapt the will of Zeus and perished in venturing some mighty deed.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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And up the width of one little street that runs to the bay, and past its barricaded doors, you may see sometimes billows that have overleapt the wall come charging, to ebb with angry swish and long-drawn clatter of shingle as the waves suck back.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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It falls from a precipice the highest portion of whose face is as smoothly perpendicular as the wall overleapt by Pi-wi-ack; but invisibly beneath its snowy flood a ledge slants sideways from the cliff about a hundred feet below the crown of the fall, and at an angle of about thirty degrees from the plumb-line.
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All these things, however, were mere preliminaries, and the imagination of the young man soon overleapt them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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His resentment, however, overleapt family considerations ....
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They would fain have overleapt it, but it was too late.
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