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Overleap vs Overlead - What's the difference?

overleap | overlead |

In transitive terms the difference between overleap and overlead

is that overleap is to pass over; to omit, leave out while overlead is to lead excessively or too much.

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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    overlead

    English

    Verb

  • To dominate; domineer over; oppress.
  • *1891 , Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte D'arthur :
    • I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights.
  • To affront; treat with indignity.
  • To lead excessively or too much.
  • *1981 , Evandro Agazzi, Modern logic :
    • If you overlead this question with too binding absoluteness requirements I am afraid that a satisfactory and not dogmatic answer will be rather difficult to find.