overleap

English

Alternative forms

o'erleap (literary contraction)

Etymology

From Middle English overlepen, from Old English oferhlēapan, equivalent to over- +‎ leap. Compare Dutch overlopen (“to spill over; overflow”), German überlaufen (“to overrun; overflow”).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /oʊvərˈliːp/
(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈliːp/

Verb

overleap (third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleaped or overleapt)

(transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
(transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.]
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 141:
  It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance from the established world powers.
(dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
I overleapt myself and stumbled.

References

overleap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

单词	overleap
释义	overleap English Alternative forms o'erleap (literary contraction) Etymology From Middle English overlepen, from Old English oferhlēapan, equivalent to over- +‎ leap. Compare Dutch overlopen (“to spill over; overflow”), German überlaufen (“to overrun; overflow”). Pronunciation (US) IPA^(key): /oʊvərˈliːp/ (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈliːp/ Verb overleap (third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleaped or overleapt) (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938: Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […]. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.] 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 141: It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance from the established world powers. (dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far. I overleapt* myself and stumbled.* References overleap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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