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)
- 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
- 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
- To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
- I overleapt myself and stumbled.
Forms of o'erleap
| third-person singular present | o'erleaps |
|---|---|
| present participle | o'erleaping |
| past participle | o'erleaped |
| past | o'erleaped |
| past participle | o'erleapt |
| past | o'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
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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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