Definitions for leapt

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Spelling: [lept, leept]

IPA: /lɛpt, lipt/

Leapt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in leapt (aelpt).

Definitions for leapt

noun

1. a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.
2. the distance covered in a leap; distance jumped.
3. a place leaped or to be leaped over or from.
4. a sudden or abrupt transition:
5. a sudden and decisive increase:

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of leap.

Idioms

1. by leaps and bounds, very rapidly:
2. leap in the dark, an action of which the consequences are unknown:
3. leap of faith, an act or instance of accepting or trusting in something that cannot readily be seen or proved.

verb (used with object)

1. to jump over:
2. to pass over as if by a jump.
3. to cause to leap:

verb (used without object)

1. to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump:
2. to move or act quickly or suddenly:
3. to pass, come, rise, etc., as if with a jump:

Origin of leapt

before 900; Middle English lepen, Old English hlēapan to leap, run; cognate with German laufen, Old Norse hlaupa, Gothic hlaupan

Examples for leapt

You had never heard of me until I leapt up here and introduced myself.

He leapt for joy at her words, and snatching at his sword, which had been left to him, buckled it on.

Housing starts, which had been sandbagged by poor weather, leapt sharply.

According to the sheriff, 18-year-old Levi Weaver begged the officer to shoot him, and then leapt at him.

Me she had not seen, nor did she till I darted out of my ambush, and leapt after Rupert into the moat.

Conservatives, notably Rush Limbaugh, leapt on CBS today to complain that late night would now be an overtly left-wing roustabout.

They conceivably could have leapt from a number of tall buildings and then drifted over to where they landed.

She had leapt as the deer leaps, and crouched, still as any deer.

He leapt on the parapet of the window, laughing as he leapt, and waving his sword in his hand.

The poor dog heard the tumult, and leapt to your aid, sir, and we made after him.