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lept

lept is the simple past and past participle of leap.

Meaning of leap

Verb

leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (obsolete) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (obsolete) lope or (obsolete) lopen)

  1. (intransitive) To jump.
    • It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leepc. 1450, anonymous author, Merlin
    Synonyms:
    bound, hop, jump, spring
  2. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
    • to leap a wall or a ditch
  3. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
  4. (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
    • go leap her, and engender young devilings1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […]...
  5. (transitive) To cause to leap.
    • to leap a horse across a ditch

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Questions about lept

What is lept the simple past and past participle of?
Lept is the simple past and past participle of leap.

Words near lept in the dictionary

  1. leprous gold
  2. leprously
  3. leprousness
  4. lepry
  5. leps
  6. lept
  7. lept-
  8. lepta
  9. leptacline
  10. leptaculatin
  11. leptandrin

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