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overtops

overtops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overtop.

overtops is the plural of overtop.

Meaning of overtop

Verb

overtop (third-person singular simple present overtops, present participle overtopping, simple past and past participle overtopped)

  1. (transitive) To be higher than; to rise over the top of.
    • From thence we came without the Eaſtern gate, (ſtanding on a low Banke, called the daughter of Syon, that over-toppeth the valley of Iehoſaphat,) unto an immoveable ſtone, upon the which they ſaid St. Stephen was ſtoned to death, the firſt Martyr of the Chriſtian faith; and the faithfull...1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in...
  2. (transitive) To place too many toppings on.
    • to overtop a pizza

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Questions about overtops

What is overtops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overtops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overtop.

Words near overtops in the dictionary

  1. overtoppings
  2. overtopple
  3. overtoppled
  4. overtopples
  5. overtoppling
  6. overtops
  7. overtorque
  8. overtorqued
  9. overtorques
  10. overtorquing
  11. overtour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtops (page history and authors); overtop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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