overjump

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verb

To jump over.

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Meanings

verboverjump (third-person singular simple present overjumps, present participle overjumping, simple past and past participle overjumped)

present singular third person overjumps · participle present overjumping · participle past overjumped · past overjumped

  1. transitiveTo jump over.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo omit or ignore.

    Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […]

    c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii
  3. intransitiveTo jump too far or too high.

Origin

From over- + jump.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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