overlooking

Verb

overlook (third-person singular simple present overlooks, present participle overlooking, simple past and past participle overlooked)

1. To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
   • Our hotel room overlooks the lake.
2. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
   • These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.

   Synonyms:

   misheed, ignore, misregard, miss, overpass, oversee

3. To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
   • I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.

   Synonyms:

   take no notice of, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, ignore, misheed, misregard, neglect

4. To look down upon from above or from a higher location.
   • The hill overlooks the valley.

   Synonyms:

   survey, look over, luster, lustrate

5. (archaic, sometimes non-native speakers' English) To supervise, oversee; to watch over.
   • to overlook a gang of laborers
6. (archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
   • […] you had need cause the party whome you will drawe to sit […] without stirring or altering the mouth were it neuer so little: wherefore you shall I beleeue find (a mans face) aboue all other creaturs the most troublesome vnto you: for either they will smile, be ouerlooking your hand, or setting...1606, Henry Peacham, chapter VII, in The Art of Drawing with the Pen, London: William Jones, book 1, page 20

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