outleap

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noun

A sally; flight; escape.

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Meanings

nounoutleap (plural outleaps)

plural outleaps

  1. A sally; flight; escape.
  2. A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.

    The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him.

    1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173
  3. datedobsoleteestate lawA fine which is paid by a person to their lord for deserting an estate without permission.
verboutleap (third-person singular simple present outleaps, present participle outleaping, simple past and past participle outleapt or outleaped)

present singular third person outleaps · participle present outleaping · participle past outleapt · past outleapt · participle past outleaped · past outleaped

  1. transitiveTo leap out, as if from an ambush.
  2. transitiveTo leap beyond or farther than.

Origin

From out- + leap.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

outpeal
Cite this entry
APA

outleap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outleap

MLA

“outleap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outleap. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outleap,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outleap.

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