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
How very easily, seeing one half the truth, we can overleap too much intervening space and falsify the remaining half!
From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry
When we pass from Chaucer's age, we have to overleap nearly a hundred and eighty years before we alight upon a period presenting anything like an adequate show of literary continuation.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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