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overleap
(over|leap)
Pronunciation:
/əʊvəˈliːp/
verb
(
past and past participle
overleaped
or
overleapt
)
[
with object
]
archaic
jump over or across:
a stream that any five-years' child might overleap
omit or ignore:
whatever objection made by us, he finds too heavy to remove, he overleaps it
Origin:
Old English
oferhlēapan
(see
over
,
leap
)
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