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Synonyms for overleap

defeat (oneself) by going too far

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jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

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Even though a historical account of the way illness excluded and still does--people from the public sphere is overleapt throughout the book, thereby excluding a series of social as well as personal possibilities of the human being, the author lays stress on the phenomenological possibilities brought about by the condition of illness.
Seeking space, the firms overleapt the newly-established London Green Belt and established themselves in what came to be known as the M4 Corridor.
Indeed, he was rarely heavy-handed in his narration, rarely overleapt the human and the natural to get to the divine dimension.
By the late seventeenth century, the discourse of conquest had overleapt Don Quixote to become a virtual parody of itself.
Barbeau's 1914 collection overleapt the first and second women's sections of Sky to overemphasize the Twins' section, as told by his male informants,(10) Marius Barbeau got the shape and emphasis of the stories more correct in 1960 because his informant on Sky tales was a woman, Catherine Johnson, the proper teller of the first two cycles of Sky.(11) Unfortunately, by 1960 the women's story had shrunk to near invisibility, an obscure tale in an arcane source.