overleap

[ oh-ver-leep ]
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verb (used with object),o·ver·leaped or o·ver·leapt, o·ver·leap·ing.
  1. to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.

  2. to overreach (oneself) by leaping too far: to overleap oneself with ambition.

  1. to pass over or omit: to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.

  2. Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.

Origin of overleap

1
before 900; Middle English overlepen,Old English oferhlēapan.See over-, leap

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How to use overleap in a sentence

  • This higher authority, which no legislature could "overleap without destroying its own foundation," was the British Constitution.

  • If the general legislature should, at any time, overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check.

  • Why he did not overleap it is not known; but having probably became intimidated, he suddenly stopped and cried aloud for aid.

  • See you yonder rock—the largest—where the foam breaks most fiercely, as if in wrath because it cannot overleap it?

    The Norsemen in the West | R.M. Ballantyne
  • It would not be well for us to overleap one grade of joy or suffering: our life would lose its completeness and beauty.