Meaning of OVERLEAP
| Pronunciation: | | `owvu'leep
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- [v] leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- [v] jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
- [v] defeat (oneself) by going too far
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| | Synonyms: | | drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit, vault |
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| | Antonyms: | | attend to, take to heart | | |
| | See Also: | | bound, exaggerate, forget, hurdle, jump, jump, leap, overdo, pass over, skip, skip over, spring | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O`ver*leap"\, v. t. [AS. oferhle['a]pan. See {Over},
and {Leap}.]
To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. ``Let me
o'erleap that custom.'' --Shak.
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