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
Paine therefore set about constructing his iron bridge of thirteen symbolic ribs, to overleap the ice-floods and quicksands of rivers.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
Then his spirit seemed to overleap all impediments; and, as if inspired, he proclaimed the sovereign efficacy of the sacrifice upon Calvary.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
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
"I'd rather be here than any where else!" he exclaimed, in a burst of candor which quite overleaped the barrier of self-possession and came down on the other side.
From International Short Stories American by Various
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
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
“Well, never fear,” said the Governor, “I will check you if I find you are overleaping the bounds of propriety.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
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
Thus only could he have completed the wondrous picture of the world, without leaving any step vacant or overleaping transitions.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
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
Modern improvement has gone overhead on its high- level viaduct; and the extended city has cleanly overleapt, and left unaltered, what was once the summer retreat of its comfortable citizens.
From Edinburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The night that was waiting imminent outside, silently overleapt the barriers of golden light.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
William overleapt his own low wall and drew nearer to observe, his pulses beating rapidly.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
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