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Overlook

verb

(past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)

Look past, fail to notice.

Be oriented in a certain direction. Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over. "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"

Leave undone or leave out. Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit. "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

Look down on. Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop.

Watch over.

noun

A high place affording a good view.

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"Overlook" Quotes from Famous Books

... was to the south of west so as to clear the tracks of other explorers, and then to call at Middleburg and Amsterdam. Each night the ships lay to in order that they might not overlook any unknown island, and on 23rd September Harvey's Islands were sighted and named. On 1st October Middleburg was reached, but no good anchorage being found, they went on to Amsterdam. Before they got clear away, ...

— The Life of Captain James Cook • Arthur Kitson

... for you to make any movement liable to misconstruction. This toy"—he lifted his pistol—"has a very delicate touch. Now, gentlemen. One at a time, please, and do not wait to discuss the question of precedence. I am quite willing to overlook any ...

— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster

... of the deepest regret that we find ourselves obliged to conclude the publication of our Journal in this sudden and unexpected manner, but we feel sure that the great indulgence of the Public will overlook this, as it has done many other great errors ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... imposed upon them by a limited education,—one of those votaries of science, whose energy seems to grow all the more, because it has nothing to feed upon. He was very slightly formed, and had eyes so bright and shining that when one gazed on him, one was inclined to overlook all his other thin, sharply defined features. Never was there a more complete appearance of a clear intelligence in ...

— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various

... precious heritage to his countrymen. The best in his books ranks with the best in the literature of his times. One could wish that he had shown more tolerance for the things other men live for, but this must not make us overlook the value of the things he himself lived for, though with some of his readers his intolerance doubtless has this effect. We cannot all take to the woods and swamps as Thoreau did. He had a genius for that kind of a life; the most ...

— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

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