overpeer

Verb

overpeer (third-person singular simple present overpeers, present participle overpeering, simple past and past participle overpeered)

1. To peer over; to overlook.
   • […] the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d,
     Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
     In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
     And thence discover how with most advantage
     They may vex us with shot, or with assault.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • In Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her.1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16
2. (figuratively) To rise above.
   • The ocean, overpeering of his list,
     Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
     Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head,
     O’erbears Your offices.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
   • These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood.1896, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Forge in the Forest, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Part I, Foreward, p. 12