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单词 overleap
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overleap

verb

over·​leap ˌō-vər-ˈlēp How to pronounce overleap (audio)
overleaped or overleapt ˌō-vər-ˈlēpt How to pronounce overleap (audio)
 also  -ˈlept
; overleaping ˌō-vər-ˈlē-piŋ How to pronounce overleap (audio)

transitive verb

1
: to leap over or across
2
: to defeat (oneself) by going too far

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Bridge-builders—such is the implication—will always overleap wall-builders. Felipe Fernández-armesto, WSJ, 25 June 2018 In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital. Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2008

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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