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Definition of "overleap" []

  • To leap across or over. (verb-transitive)
  • To defeat (oneself or one's purpose) by going too far. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "overleap" in a sentence
  • "“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."
  • "Both show how women can overleap the traditional bonds imposed on them."
  • "In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital."