Definition of "overtopped" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of overtop. (verb)

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• "This supports the administration's contention that the White House was receiving conflicting reports during the course of Aug. 29 about whether the levees had been breached or simply "overtopped" by hurricane-driven flood waters."
• "The peril in which she stood but kindled in her heart a fiery depth of passion, such as overtopped and tamed the very terrors of her position."
• "(A) STU is the raw proportion of saplings of each species in the FIA data with crown class 'overtopped' or 'intermediate,' and (B)"