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o'erleap

o'erleap is the contraction of overleap.

Meaning of overleap

Verb

overleap (third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleaped or overleapt)

  1. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
    • Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To pass over; to exceed; to omit, leave out.
    • It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance from the established world powers.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141
  3. (dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
    • I overleapt myself and stumbled.

Forms of o'erleap

third-person singular presento'erleaps
present participleo'erleaping
past participleo'erleaped
pasto'erleaped
past participleo'erleapt
pasto'erleapt

Questions about o'erleap

What is o'erleap the contraction of?
O'erleap is the contraction of overleap.

Words near o'erleap in the dictionary

  1. o'erjoys
  2. o'erlaid
  3. o'erlay
  4. o'erlaying
  5. o'erlays
  6. o'erleap
  7. o'erload
  8. o'erloaded
  9. o'erloading
  10. o'erloads
  11. o'erlook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: o'erleap (page history and authors); overleap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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