overleap
verbUS /oʊ.vərˈliːp/ · UK /əʊ.vəˈliːp/
Etymology From Middle English overlepen, from Old English oferhlēapan. Compare Dutch overlopen (“to spill over; overflow”), German überlaufen (“to overrun; overflow”). By surface analysis, over- + leap.
1
To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
- Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
To pass over; to exceed; to omit, leave out.
- It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance from the established world powers.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141:
3
Dated To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
- I overleapt myself and stumbled.