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
Now and then he made little semi-jocose attempts to overleap it, but at the worst a word could curb him where a glance failed.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Sometimes he would succeed so well for a flash that it only made the impalpable but stern barrier of personality more definite even while almost seeming to overleap it.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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
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
It was your vaulting ambition which overleaped all bounds before.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
Then we learned that, as at Port Royal, the sea had overleaped its bounds and its victims by thousands were in its grasp.
From A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton
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
Are there not associations which, overleaping the recent past, carry us back to times when, over North and South, this flag was honored alike by all?
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
The dread of overleaping the restraints of law, which, perchance, has prolonged the conflict, has been most creditable to the genuine democracy we have represented.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Here was an instance of ambition overleaping itself,—exceeding by far the needs and conditions of its environment and like many another ill-planned venture, it fell to ruin through a lack of logic and mental balance.
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
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
Regardless of a storm of blows Swift to the sky the Vánar rose, Then lightly like a flying ball High overleapt the city wall, And joyous for deliverance won Regained the side of Raghu's son.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
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
There must have been moments in his life when the wish in its passion overleapt the bounds of hope.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
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