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
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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
Their vaulting ambition did not again try to overleap the Pyrenees; and they addressed themselves to settling affairs in their new territory.
From A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele
Young diplomatists and young greyhounds run fast and overleap the game.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
His indignation at the conduct of Barron overleaped all bounds, and he told him bluntly, "Sir, you have disgraced us."
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
A body of Normans having given way, the Kentish men in their eagerness overleaped the barricade and gave chase to their flying foes.
From Stories from English History by Hilda T. Skae
If revenge on Marcia Lawrence was the object of the plot, the conspirators had overleaped themselves.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
He had thrown down his spade, and was out of the potato-field, overleaping a wall, before his mother had time to question or remonstrate.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
It is not present as overleaping the temporal succession of nature, but it is present as an immediate fact for the mind.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
He made for it at once, directing his course to a spot which the overleaping surge did not reach.
From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various
All these things, however, were mere preliminaries, and the imagination of the young man soon overleapt them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
In those early colonial days the settlers overleapt and left behind them leagues of primeval forest, to all appearance inviolate.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She could not separate him from his genius; and his genius had long ago overleapt the social gulf.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
But moat and mound, cannon and cavern, were at length overleapt, silenced and exhausted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
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
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