overleaps

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.