overleap
to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
to overreach (oneself) by leaping too far: to overleap oneself with ambition.
to pass over or omit: to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.
Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.
Origin of overleap
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How to use overleap in a sentence
Their scepticism about Universals thus overleapt itself, and fell on the other side, into obscurantist ecclesiasticism.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsThe clear young eyes looked straight through it, the fresh young voice made nothing of it, the playful fancies overleapt it.
A Bookful of Girls | Anna FullerAll these things, however, were mere preliminaries, and the imagination of the young man soon overleapt them.
William overleapt his own low wall and drew nearer to observe, his pulses beating rapidly.
The Making of William Edwards | Mrs. G. Linnaeus BanksBut moat and mound, cannon and cavern, were at length overleapt, silenced and exhausted.
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