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
The water itself, perhaps a hundred feet wide, would be an ineffectual barrier; such fierce flame would overleap it.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
And had they shown any disposition to learn, Jesus was too wise a teacher to hurry them and overleap needed steps in conviction and experience.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
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
In America the distance between Quebec and New Orleans, a distance of three thousand miles, is overleaped by the electric telegraph.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
The mercurial spirits of the French soldier, which overleaped every obstacle in his path, were often found to evaporate in the tedium of protracted operations, where there was neither incident nor excitement.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
With the thought came a still and heavenly peace, while my hope, finding no place on this side, overleaped the darkness of death and dwelt upon the scenes of promised happiness beyond.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
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
Having it in their power, they would rob even their nearest friends, thus overleaping that common law of "honour among thieves."
From Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. by Jonathan Harrington Green
Place Lady Macbeth in comparison with Richard III., and you see at once the essential distinction between masculine and feminine ambition—though both in extreme, and overleaping all restraints of conscience or mercy.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
His lighting 'on Niphates' top,' and overleaping the gate of Paradise, may be used as arguments either way.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
Therefore the High Commissioner overleapt the law, and by an ordinance banished these ringleaders to Bermuda during Her Majesty's pleasure.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
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
Augustus himself was supposed to have the gift of divination; his foreknowledge overleapt the extinction of his own house, and foresaw, across a gap of fifty years, the brief reign of Galba.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
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
They would fain have overleapt it, but it was too late.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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