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Overleap

verb

Defeat (oneself) by going too far.

Jump across or leap over (an obstacle). Synonym: vault.

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

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"Overleap" Quotes from Famous Books

... effects are totally different: the man of high courage and great abilities is apt to place too much confidence in himself, and to expect, from a vigorous exertion of his powers, more than spirit or diligence can attain: between him and his wish he sees obstacles indeed, but he expects to overleap or break them; his mistaken ardour hurries him forward; and though, perhaps, he misses his end, he nevertheless obtains some collateral good, and performs something useful to ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... his majesty's high court of parliament is the supreme legislative power over the whole empire: that in all free states the constitution is fixed: and, as the supreme legislative derives its power and authority from the constitution, it cannot overleap the bounds of it, without destroying its foundation; that the constitution ascertains and limits both sovereignty and allegiance; and therefore, his majesty's American subjects who acknowledge themselves bound by the ties of allegiance, have an equitable claim to the full enjoyment ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

... Habits and sex may change with the new generation, features may alter with the play of a private passion, but a voice is apart from these. It lies nearer to the racial essence and perhaps to the divine; it can, at all events, overleap one grave. ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

... danger in all this. The suppression of premature and base suggestions must not overleap itself and suppress either mature thought (which has been given its hemlock not once but many times on this particular pretext) or the destruction of necessary common knowledge. If we begin to hunt for suggestion and indecency it may be urged we shall end by driving all these ...

— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Overleap" : leap, spring, overdo, skip, forget, skip over, hurdle, attend to, exaggerate, bound, pass over, jump