overskip

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verb

To skip or leap over

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Meanings

verboverskip (third-person singular simple present overskips, present participle overskipping, simple past and past participle overskipped)

present singular third person overskips · participle present overskipping · participle past overskipped · past overskipped

  1. archaicTo skip or leap over
  2. archaicto treat with indifference or ignore.

    the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]

Origin

From over- + skip.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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