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overleap

/oh-ver-leep/US // ˌoʊ vərˈlip //

跃过,跃升,跃进,超越

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·leaped or o·ver·leapt, o·ver·leap·ing.

    • : to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
    • : to overreach by leaping too far: to overleap oneself with ambition.
    • : to pass over or omit: to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.
    • : Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.

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Examples

  • This higher authority, which no legislature could "overleap without destroying its own foundation," was the British Constitution.

  • If the general legislature should, at any time, overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check.

  • Why he did not overleap it is not known; but having probably became intimidated, he suddenly stopped and cried aloud for aid.

  • See you yonder rock—the largest—where the foam breaks most fiercely, as if in wrath because it cannot overleap it?

  • It would not be well for us to overleap one grade of joy or suffering: our life would lose its completeness and beauty.