overpass

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road,…

   A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.

   • The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.
2. 2

   To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.

   • Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.
3. 3

   To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.

   • Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
   • The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.
   • Thou who didst fling on Troia's every tower / The o'er-roofing snare, that neither great thing might, / Nor any of the young ones, overpass / Captivity's great sweep-net— […]
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   1. 4

      To disregard, skip, or miss something.

      • A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.

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• synonymsurpass
• synonymtransgress
• synonymtranscend
• synonymmiss
• synonymoverlook
• synonymtake no notice of
• synonymignore
• synonymfail to notice
• antonymunderpass
• antonymsubway