overleap
Americanverb (used with object)
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to leap over or across.
to overleap a fence.
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to overreach (oneself ) by leaping too far.
to overleap oneself with ambition.
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to pass over or omit.
to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.
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Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.
Etymology
Origin of overleap
before 900; Middle English overlepen, Old English oferhlēapan. See over-, leap
Example Sentences
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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.
From Time ● Nov. 30, 2016
"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.
From Time Magazine Archive
Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.
From Time Magazine Archive
For those two hundred million dollars were a barrier, which a descendant of Crusaders and preux chevaliers could not overleap.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
Now the loyal wave rolls up as if it would overleap its barrier, the crest.
From The Battle of Gettysburg by Frank Aretas Haskell
Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'd rather be here than any where else!" he exclaimed, in a burst of candor which quite overleaped the barrier of self-possession and came down on the other side.
From International Short Stories American by Various
I could hear a strange rush upon the mountain, and along the glen, as if the Solway had overleaped all bounds, and was careering some thousand feet abreast over Criffel and Queenberry.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
This necessary period of preparation, of slow and irksome preparation, and gradual progression, cannot be avoided or overleaped by the most heroic exertions of man.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between.
From Time Magazine Archive
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, without pause, overleaping the barrier, the unflagging sailors again closed.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
The tone was gentle, but Agatha would as soon have thought of overleaping a stone wall as of opposing a desire thus expressed.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
"He contracted," he says, "some acquaintance of a freer manner of thinking than he had been accustomed to, whose society prepared him for overleaping the bounds of rigid virtue which had hitherto restrained him."
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
A little below where they stood, a good-sized brook passed below the road, which overleapt it in a single arch.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
The ore-bins were intact, for the fly-wheel had overleapt them, but tables and tanks and concentrating jigs were utterly smashed and ruined.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
More than ever since he had overleapt that barrier too.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
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