overleap

/oʊ.vərˈliːp/

overleap means to leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.

overleap is pronounced /oʊ.vərˈliːp/.

Etymology

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

To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.e.g.“Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].” — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
To pass over; to exceed; to omit, leave out.e.g.“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.” — 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141:
To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.e.g.“I overleapt myself and stumbled.”

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