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overskip

overskip verb: to skip or leap over.

Verb

overskip (third-person singular simple present overskips, present participle overskipping, simple past and past participle overskipped)

  1. (archaic) To skip or leap over
  2. (archaic) to treat with indifference or ignore.
    • the mind much sufferance doth o'erskipc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of overskip

third-person singular presentoverskips
present participleoverskipping
past participleoverskipped
pastoverskipped

Origin of overskip

From over- + skip.

Questions about overskip

What does overskip mean?
Overskip means to skip or leap over.
What part of speech is overskip?
Overskip is a verb.
What is the past tense of overskip?
The past tense of overskip is overskipped.

Words near overskip in the dictionary

  1. overskies
  2. overskim
  3. overskimmed
  4. overskimming
  5. overskims
  6. overskip
  7. overskipped
  8. overskipping
  9. overskips
  10. overskirt
  11. overskirts

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