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
Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.
From Time Magazine Archive
"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now and then he made little semi-jocose attempts to overleap it, but at the worst a word could curb him where a glance failed.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Paine therefore set about constructing his iron bridge of thirteen symbolic ribs, to overleap the ice-floods and quicksands of rivers.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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
They create their own barriers, which cannot be overleaped.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
Those of the dragoons not disabled rushed on, overleaped the batteries, and seized the guns.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
The frontier imagination had in no wise overleaped itself in naming this abyss.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In fact, we are told, the poet has, in the Acharnians, shown his true greatness by overleaping all restraints of time and place and giving his fancy free rein.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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
Tyr leapt from the hearth, his eyes red as the fire, his fangs showing white in the black jowl, his neck ridged and bristling; and overleaping Rol, ramped at the door, barking furiously.
From The Were-Wolf by Laurence Housman
The night that was waiting imminent outside, silently overleapt the barriers of golden light.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
William overleapt his own low wall and drew nearer to observe, his pulses beating rapidly.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
Sometimes he plays with what is merely a chance identity of sound, as where Satan, entering Paradise-- At one slight bound high overleapt all bound.
From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
—Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or besieging— This tempted our attempt— At one slight bound high overleapt all bound.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
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