overpass
noun
a road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
overpast
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past participleof overpass.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof overpass.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
overpassnouna road, pedestrian walkway, railroad, bridge, etc., crossing over some barrier, as another road or walkway.
Example Sentences
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Her eyes were open and the snowstorm overpast, leaving the sky clear, and all the westward heaven alight with the trailing, crackling, leaping curtains of the Aurora, brighter than she had ever seen them before.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The temporary chaperons were kind, and the friendship had burgeoned into something quite like intimacy before the "Mormon day" was overpast.
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
Emboldened by this reflection and sustained by a sense of danger overpast, I even went to the length of attempting to pave the way for the reception of the happy solution.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
It soon grew apparent, now that the meridian of poor Cynthia's wrath was overpast, that the child would have to pay the price of it.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
Go about his business--was there not sad, pressing business at Beamond's farm?--until the storm was overpast.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
