Meaning

2 senses

  1. To fly over something.

    My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.

    überfliegen

    fly over

  2. To fly too far past something.

    The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.

Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
fly over something:

Forms

overflies, overflying, overflew, overflown
Base formoverfly · to overfly
3rd person singularoverflies
Present participleoverflying
Past simpleoverflew
Past participleoverflown

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverfly
he, she, itoverflies

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverflew

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overflown
he, she, ithas overflown

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overfly

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedflyoveroverflight
Derivedoverflier

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overfilloverflowovergrazingoverhangoverhaul

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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