overfly
verbEtymology From over- + fly.
1
To fly over something.
- My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
- In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193:
2
To fly too far past something.
- The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.
- Derived terms
- overflier
- Related terms
- flyover, overflight