overtop
verb (used with object)
to rise over or above the top of.
have overtopped
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present perfectof overtop.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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When living—for it is now prostrate—its first branches could have overtopped Strasburg Cathedral, or, in other words, were above eighty feet from the ground.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
The corn was at full growth, and its tall culms and broad lanceolate leaves would have overtopped the head of a man on horseback.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
The Pumpkin Giant was very tall; he probably would have overtopped most of the giants you have ever heard of.
From The Pot of Gold And Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The waves rose mountains high, as if they would have overtopped the mast; but the ship dived like a swan between them, and then rose again on their lofty, foaming crests.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Heaths of many a gorgeous hue—purple, golden, and azure—clad a surface ever changing, and ferns that would have overtopped a tall horseman mingled their sprayey leaves with the wild myrtle and the arbutus.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
