See overpass on Wiktionary
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"text": "The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.",
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"ref": "2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:",
"text": "By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.",
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"A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc."
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"word": "立交橋"
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"roman": "mic̣iszeda gadasasvleli",
"sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
"word": "მიწისზედა გადასასვლელი"
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"sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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"alt": "こせんきょう",
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"sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
"word": "跨線橋"
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"alt": "りっきょう",
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"word": "путепрово́д"
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"sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
"word": "cầu vượt"
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"ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/"
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"ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/"
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"ipa": "/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/"
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"text": "Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.",
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"ref": "1877, Aeschylus, translated by Robert Browning, The Agamemnon of Æschylus, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 31:",
"text": "Thou who didst fling on Troia's every tower / The o'er-roofing snare, that neither great thing might, / Nor any of the young ones, overpass / Captivity's great sweep-net— […]",
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"ref": "[1878], William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress […], London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 21:",
"text": "For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]",
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"(transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal."
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"ref": "1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 197–198:",
"text": "A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.",
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"To disregard, skip, or miss something."
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"word": "跨線橋"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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