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Surpass vs Overtop - What's the difference?

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Surpass is a related term of overtop.


As verbs the difference between surpass and overtop

is that surpass is to go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed while overtop is to be higher than, to rise over the top of.

surpass

English

Verb

(es)
  • To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.
    • The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
    The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.
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    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

    See also

    * exceed * excel * outdo * outstrip

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    overtop

    English

    Verb

    (overtopp)
  • To be higher than, to rise over the top of.
  • *1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 79:
  • *:There was a single birch tree that overtopped the other trees on the island, and was now picked out against the moon-drenched sky.
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