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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overjump en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + jump.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To jump over.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To omit or ignore.
    • Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […] c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
  3. (intransitive) To jump too far or too high.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overjumped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overjumped Tense=Past lexicographic
overjumps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overjumping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic