Definitions for overleap

overleap o·ver·leap

Spelling: [oh-ver-leep]
IPA: /ˌoʊ vərˈlip/

Overleap is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in overleap (aeeloprv).

Definitions for overleap

verb (used with object)

  1. to leap over or across:
  2. to overreach (oneself) by leaping too far:
  3. to pass over or omit:
  4. Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.

Origin of overleap

before 900; Middle English overlepen, Old English oferhlēapan. See over-, leap

Examples for overleap

These prescribe the route in which it must exercise itself, and the bounds which it must not overleap.

The flowers that overleap all bounds in this section are the houstonias.

I have drawn around thee a magic circle of curses which he cannot overleap.

We cannot overleap the barriers by which Life is constrained.

Well, well, we must not overleap the quiet current of our story.

The world hungers for a voice which will overleap the frontiers of nations and of classes.

The Latin of thy namesake Jerome is a barrier I cannot overleap.

I thought they only missed the stirrup; I find they overleap the saddle.

The order of all life is by steps; these we cannot overleap.

Some were seen springing high in the air, as if to overleap the pit.

Word Value for overleap
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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