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
"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
A severe storm had been raging all day, and now, in the approaching twilight, seemed as if it would overleap all bounds in its wild confusion.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg
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
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
But when he, a stranger to congressional halls, was made a member of the Ways and Means Committee, his astonishment overleaped all bounds.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
She might have overleaped barriers, earlier in the year, if she could have known the case was so desperate; and yet, Diana reflected, she could not and would not, even so.
From Diana by Susan Warner
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
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
George R. Gilmer, a follower of Crawford, tells of the latter: “He was violently opposed to the nullification movement, considering it but an ebullition excited by Mr. Calhoun’s overleaping, ambition.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Clap following clap Acclaimed Convention's overleaping As Betsey gained her mother's lap And gave the prize into her keeping.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various
Like a flood overleaping the barrier that held it back, the words came eagerly.
From People Like That by Kate Langley Bosher
The houses at length overleapt the wall of Philip Augustus, and merrily scattered themselves at random over the plain, like prisoners who had made their escape.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
In her great longing to comfort the woman, whose deep anguish she divined beneath the quiet desolation of her voice, Joan overleapt her own knowledge.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
All agree that these poems represent a new departure in poetry, and some consider that in them the poet, in thus dealing with metaphysical abstractions, has overleapt the boundaries of the poetic art.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
The clear young eyes looked straight through it, the fresh young voice made nothing of it, the playful fancies overleapt it.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
The misgivings about her husband which long practice and continual effort had taught her how to keep at bay, suddenly overleapt their artificial barriers and swarmed upon her.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
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