o'erleap

A form of overleap — To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.

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Meanings

verbo'erleap (third-person singular simple present o'erleaps, present participle o'erleaping, simple past and past participle o'erleaped or o'erleapt)

present singular third person o'erleaps · participle present o'erleaping · participle past o'erleaped · past o'erleaped · participle past o'erleapt · past o'erleapt

  1. abbreviationcontractionliteraryContraction of overleap

    The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / For in my way it lies.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]
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    I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on th' other.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii]
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APA

o'erleap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/o'erleap

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“o'erleap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/o'erleap. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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