"overfly" meaning in All languages combined

See overfly on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: overflies [present, singular, third-person], overflying [participle, present], overflew [past], overflown [participle, past]
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  1. To fly over something. Translations (fly over something): survoler (French), überfliegen (German), sorvolare (Italian), sobrevoar (Portuguese), sobrevolar (Spanish)
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  2. To fly too far past something.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: overflier Related terms: flyover, overflight

Inflected forms

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