overpass
noun
a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
had overpassed
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past perfectof overpass.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But there is a limit to the endurance of the most iron natures, and the outlaw had overpassed his bounds of strength.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
Mercifully, there is a limit to nerve endurance, and Letty in her raving had overpassed it.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He said also that there would not be wanting One, when I had overpassed my next stage, to make confession of William Gordon before the angels of heaven.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He gave notice to the English admiral of a certain ship being in the harbour of St Jago, which they had overpassed six leagues.
Twenty-four hours ago she looked less than her real age by ten years; now she had overpassed it by half that time at least.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
