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Overleant vs Overleapt - What's the difference?

overleant | overleapt |

As verbs the difference between overleant and overleapt

is that overleant is (overlean) while overleapt is (overleap).

overleant

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overlean)

    • overlean

    English

    Verb

  • To lean over.
  • * (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly

    overleapt

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overleap)

    • overleap

    English

    Verb

  • To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.7:
    • Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
  • To pass over; to omit, leave out.
  • * 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 141:
    • It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.

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