"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]
Etymology: over- + fly Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|fly}} over- + fly Head templates: {{en-verb|overflies|overflying|overflew|overflown}} overfly (third-person singular simple present overflies, present participle overflying, simple past overflew, past participle overflown)
  1. To fly over something. Translations (fly over something): survoler (French), überfliegen (German), sorvolare (Italian), sobrevoar (Portuguese), sobrevolar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-overfly-en-verb-1aaQOOY2 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 61 39 Disambiguation of 'fly over something': 96 4
  2. To fly too far past something.
    Sense id: en-overfly-en-verb-JUFl0HkF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: flyover, overflight

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overfly meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)

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