overleap

1. 1.

   defeat (oneself) by going too far

   Broaderoverdo
2. 2.

   jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

   Synonymsvault

   Broaderjump

   Narrowerhurdle
3. 3.

   leave undone or leave out

   “How could I miss that typo?”

   “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”

   Synonymsneglectpretermitomitdropmissleave outoverlook

   Narrowerforgetjump

Other forms of overleap

past tense

overleaped·

present participle

overleaping·

third person

overleaps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overleap

What does overleap mean?

overleap means "defeat (oneself) by going too far". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overleap?

overleap has 4 syllables: o-ver-le-ap. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for overleap?

Close synonyms include vault, neglect, pretermit, omit, drop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overleap a common word?

overleap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.