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
Had it been waiting all these years to overleap the barriers about her well ordered life and sweep her into chaos?
From Mrs. Balfame A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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 James Baldwin
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
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
The frontier imagination had in no wise overleaped itself in naming this abyss.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
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
Its menace is overleaping the limits of the Old World and is plunging into consternation the Great Republic of the West, as well as the peoples of Central and South America.
From Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi
However, after, like ‘vaulting ambition,’ overleaping himself when trying to jump into his unaccustomed bed-place, falling, equally unceremoniously, ‘on t’other side,’ Mick succeeded in ensconcing himself very comfortably in his hammock.
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene
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
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
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 anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity, which were prevalent, easily overleapt the interval between the human and Divine.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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
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
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