Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.

    jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

  2. (transitive)To pass over; to exceed; to omit, leave out.

    leave undone or leave out

  3. (dated, reflexive)To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.

    I overleapt myself and stumbled.

    defeat (oneself) by going too far

Origin

From Middle English overlepen, from Old English oferhlēapan. Compare Dutch overlopen (“to

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

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Forms

overleaps, overleaping, overleaped, overleaped
Base formoverleap · to overleap
3rd person singularoverleaps
Present participleoverleaping
Past simpleoverleaped / overleapt
Past participleoverleaped / overleapt

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverleap
he, she, itoverleaps

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverleaped

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overleap

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overlapB2overlayC2overloadoverlookB2
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