overpass
noun
a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
have overpassed
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present perfectof overpass.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In this characterisation I have overpassed the limits of the fifteen cases presented by Krafft-Ebing.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
Moreover, my chela, I think that may be we have overpassed that River.'
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Onely his Pes Arabicus, the Arabian foote, or that mentioned in Abulfada, and Nubiensis: the Geographers I have overpassed, because hee dareth not, for certeine, affirme what it was.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
They who in their headlong career have overpassed the goal can furnish no example to those who aim to go no further.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
