overjump
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
overjump (third-person singular simple present overjumps, present participle overjumping, simple past and past participle overjumped)
- (transitive) To jump over.
- (transitive, obsolete) To omit or ignore.
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
- Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […]
- (intransitive) To jump too far or too high.
References[edit]
- “overjump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.