overleap

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overleap

/oʊ.vərˈliːp/ US
/əʊ.vəˈliːp/ UK

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From Middle English overlepen, from Old English oferhlēapan. Compare Dutch overlopen (“to spill over; overflow”), German überlaufen (“to overrun; overflow”). By surface analysis, over- + leap.

verb overleaps · overleaping · overleaped · overleapt

transitive To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
transitive To pass over; to exceed; to omit, leave out. It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance from the established world powers.
dated, reflexive To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far. I overleapt myself and stumbled.

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@misc{overleap_2026,
  title = {overleap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overleap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}