overpass

Noun

overpass (plural overpasses)

1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
   • The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.
   • By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just...

   Synonyms:

   flyover

Verb

IPA/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/

overpass (third-person singular simple present overpasses, present participle overpassing, simple past and past participle overpassed)

1. (Canada, Philippines, US) To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
   • Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.

   Synonyms:

   pass over, transpass

2. (Canada, Philippines, US, transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
   • Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
   • The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.

   Synonyms:

   overgo

3. (Canada, Philippines, US, transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something.
   • A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 197–198

   Synonyms:

   misregard