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overleap

[oh-ver-leep]

verb (used with object)

overleaped, overleapt, overleaping. 
  1. to leap over or across.

    to overleap a fence.

  2. to overreach (oneself ) by leaping too far.

    to overleap oneself with ambition.

  3. to pass over or omit.

    to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.

  4. Archaic.to leap farther than; outleap.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overleap1

before 900; Middle English overlepen, Old English Ǵڱŧ貹. 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.

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The operative in Iraq had “overleaped” in suggesting that Chinese troops are in Syria, Mr. Clarridge said, adding of the operative, “You know how it goes when people are desperate for some headline.”

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Had it been waiting all these years to overleap the barriers about her well ordered life and sweep her into chaos?

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Young diplomatists and young greyhounds run fast and overleap the game.

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For those two hundred million dollars were a barrier, which a descendant of Crusaders and preux chevaliers could not overleap.

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