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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb oh-ver-top; noun oh-ver-top
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˌoʊ vərˈtɒp; noun ˈoʊ vərˌtɒp



Definition of overtops

Origin :
  • 1560s, from over- + top (v.). Related: Overtopped; overtopping.
  • As in loom : verb appear, often imposingly
  • As in overflow : verb pour out, flood
  • As in overhang : verb bulge, hang over
  • As in overlook : verb have a view of something
  • As in surmount : verb overcome, triumph over
  • As in tower : verb rise above
  • As in transcend : verb go beyond; surpass
  • As in tower above : verb dominate
  • As in dominate : verb tower above
Example sentences :
  • It overtops all your sciences, embraces every cult, and lies at the base of all truth.
  • Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
  • A museum is located in the dome which overtops the building.
  • Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914, Volume II (of 2) » by William Henry Atherton
  • And there was the grand king of inventions—the Phonograph—that overtops all the rest.
  • Extract from : « The Boyhood of Great Inventors » by A. Fraser Robertson
  • They have long since become, for me, the danger that overtops all others.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Henry James (volume I) » by Henry James
  • Every day the harvest increases, and overtops that of the last.
  • Extract from : « De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
  • But the assumption of the genus young man often overtops the pyramids.
  • Extract from : « The Captain's Toll-Gate » by Frank R. Stockton
  • Of Ferryhill they remark that “such as know it knows it overtops and commands a great part of the country.”
  • Extract from : « The Great North Road: York to Edinburgh » by Charles G. Harper
  • The sonata form is not desperately evaded, and in the rondo of the E minor Concerto he overtops Hummel on his native heath.
  • Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker
  • How he overtops in the Cabinet those myrmidons with their many petty notions!
  • Extract from : « Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 » by Adam Gurowski
  • It is the individuality of one kind of plant which grows most abundantly or overtops the others.
  • Extract from : « Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets » by Various

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