overpassing

Verb

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.

   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

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