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Overleap vs Overlean - What's the difference?

overleap | overlean |

As verbs the difference between overleap and overlean

is that overleap is to leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping while overlean is to lean over.

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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    overlean

    English

    Verb

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