Sekirov Dictionary

overpass

/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/

verb 3
/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/ noun 1
forms 3

verb3

•
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.
•
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.
•
To disregard, skip, or miss something.
- A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed. — 1671

overpass

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/

noun1

•
(US, Canada) 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.

forms

overpassed · overpassing · overpasses

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