VERB
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
- defeat (oneself) by going too far
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leave undone or leave out
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
How could I miss that typo?
How To Use overleap In A Sentence
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- As for the corporal, instead of standing by his commanding officer, he had overleaped the hedge, and run to the constable of an adjoining village for assistance. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
- Those occasions are kept with some marks of distinction, but they rarely overleap the bounds of happy returns and a pudding. Bleak House
- It is the logical next step up from that traditional “Yankee know-how” with which America had overleaped the early worldwide impact of English industrial practicality. Magic and Mayhem
- The wisdom of Philip de Comines did not prevent his having a high sense of personal consequence; and he was so much struck with the words which the King uttered, as it were, in the career of a passion which overleaped ceremony, that he could only reply by repetition of the words Quentin Durward
- “So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates. Bloodlust
- The cautious supervision of his past years had overleaped itself at last. hence, Winterborne perceived that, in this new beginning, the necessary care not to compromise The Woodlanders
- The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the case of the mind as in that of the ear. Les Miserables
- Envy in his case overleaped itself: the hate of his justicers was so diabolic that they have given him to the pity of mankind forever; they it is who have made him eternally interesting to humanity, a tragic figure of imperishable renown. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
- In one high bound it love has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood. ONCE UPON A Love Song