"overpass" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/ [noun], /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/ [noun], /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/ [verb], /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɑːs/ [verb] Forms: overpasses [plural]
Etymology: over- + pass Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|pass}} over- + pass Head templates: {{en-noun}} overpass (plural overpasses)
  1. A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc. Tags: Canada, Philippines, US Categories (topical): Bridges, Roads Synonyms: flyover [UK] Related terms: underpass, overbridge Translations (A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc): كُبْري (kubri) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), надлез (nadlez) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 立交橋 (Chinese Mandarin), 立交桥 (lìjiāoqiáo) (Chinese Mandarin), nadjezd [masculine] (Czech), sor-lasɩŋa class 3/4 (Farefare), ylikäytävä (Finnish), ylikulkusilta (Finnish), ylikulku (Finnish), autopont [masculine] (French), pont autoroutier [masculine] (French), მიწისზედა გადასასვლელი (mic̣iszeda gadasasvleli) (Georgian), Überführung [feminine] (German), felüljáró (Hungarian), jalan layang (Indonesian), uasbhealach [masculine] (Irish), cavalcavia [masculine] (Italian), viadotto [masculine] (Italian), sovrappasso [masculine] (Italian), 跨線橋 (kosenkyō) (alt: こせんきょう) (Japanese), 陸橋 (rikkyō) (alt: りっきょう) (Japanese), на́двозник (nádvoznik) [masculine] (Macedonian), wiadukt [masculine] (Polish), viaduto [masculine] (Portuguese), pasaj suprateran [neuter] (Romanian), путепрово́д (puteprovód) [masculine] (Russian), эстака́да (estakáda) [feminine] (Russian), виаду́к (viadúk) [masculine] (Russian), nadvožnjak [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), puente [masculine] (Spanish), paso superior [masculine] (Spanish), pasarela (english: pedestrian) [feminine] (Spanish), paso elevado [masculine] (Spanish), paso a desnivel [masculine] (Spanish), cầu vượt (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-overpass-en-noun-3zLW5w71 Disambiguation of Bridges: 51 29 10 9 Disambiguation of Roads: 58 27 8 7 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with over-, Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes, Philippine English Disambiguation of American English: 49 26 16 9 Disambiguation of Canadian English: 51 18 18 13 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 8 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 52 32 9 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 33 12 9 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 52 19 16 12 Disambiguation of Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes: 58 32 5 4 Disambiguation of Philippine English: 65 27 5 3

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/ [noun], /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/ [noun], /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/ [verb], /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɑːs/ [verb] Forms: overpasses [present, singular, third-person], overpassing [participle, present], overpassed [participle, past], overpassed [past]
Etymology: over- + pass Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|pass}} over- + pass Head templates: {{en-verb}} overpass (third-person singular simple present overpasses, present participle overpassing, simple past and past participle overpassed)
  1. To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road. Synonyms (to pass above): pass over, transpass
    Sense id: en-overpass-en-verb-nFRGmjbf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 8 7 Disambiguation of 'to pass above': 85 7 8
  2. (transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to exceed a limit): overgo
    Sense id: en-overpass-en-verb-SpMoALLI Disambiguation of 'to exceed a limit': 5 92 3
  3. (transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to disregard): misregard
    Sense id: en-overpass-en-verb-tNtvPbvt Disambiguation of 'to disregard': 9 5 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: surpass, transgress, transcend, miss, overlook, take no notice of, ignore, fail to notice

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overpass meaning in All languages combined (13.3kB)

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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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          "roman": "kubri",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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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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        {
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          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "立交橋"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lìjiāoqiáo",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "nadjezd"
        },
        {
          "code": "gur",
          "lang": "Farefare",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "sor-lasɩŋa class 3/4"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "ylikäytävä"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "autopont"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pont autoroutier"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "mic̣iszeda gadasasvleli",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "მიწისზედა გადასასვლელი"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Überführung"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "felüljáró"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "jalan layang"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "uasbhealach"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cavalcavia"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "viadotto"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sovrappasso"
        },
        {
          "alt": "こせんきょう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kosenkyō",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "跨線橋"
        },
        {
          "alt": "りっきょう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rikkyō",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "word": "陸橋"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nádvoznik",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "на́двозник"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "wiadukt"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "viaduto"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "pasaj suprateran"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "puteprovód",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "путепрово́д"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "estakáda",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "эстака́да"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "viadúk",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "виаду́к"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "nadvožnjak"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "puente"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "paso superior"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "english": "pedestrian",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pasarela"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "paso elevado"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "paso a desnivel"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "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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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/",
      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɑːs/",
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        "verb"
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  ],
  "word": "overpass"
}

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        "(transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal."
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        "(transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something."
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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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        "noun"
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      "roman": "kubri",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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    },
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nadlez",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "надлез"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "立交橋"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lìjiāoqiáo",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "立交桥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nadjezd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gur",
      "lang": "Farefare",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "sor-lasɩŋa class 3/4"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "ylikäytävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "ylikulkusilta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "ylikulku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autopont"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pont autoroutier"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mic̣iszeda gadasasvleli",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "მიწისზედა გადასასვლელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Überführung"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "felüljáró"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "jalan layang"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uasbhealach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cavalcavia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "viadotto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sovrappasso"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こせんきょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kosenkyō",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "跨線橋"
    },
    {
      "alt": "りっきょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rikkyō",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "陸橋"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nádvoznik",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "на́двозник"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wiadukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "viaduto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pasaj suprateran"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "puteprovód",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "путепрово́д"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "estakáda",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "эстака́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "viadúk",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "виаду́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nadvožnjak"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paso superior"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "pedestrian",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pasarela"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paso elevado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paso a desnivel"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc",
      "word": "cầu vượt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "overpass"
}

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          "text": "Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.",
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        {
          "text": "Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exceed",
          "exceed"
        ],
        [
          "overstep",
          "overstep"
        ],
        [
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        ],
        [
          "limit",
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        ],
        [
          "threshold",
          "threshold"
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        [
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          "goal"
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        "(transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something."
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      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/",
      "tags": [
        "verb"
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      "ipa": "/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɑːs/",
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    {
      "sense": "to pass above",
      "word": "pass over"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to pass above",
      "word": "transpass"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to exceed a limit",
      "word": "overgo"
    },
    {
      "word": "surpass"
    },
    {
      "word": "transgress"
    },
    {
      "word": "transcend"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to disregard",
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    },
    {
      "word": "miss"
    },
    {
      "word": "overlook"
    },
    {
      "word": "take no notice of"
    },
    {
      "word": "ignore"
    },
    {
      "word": "fail to notice"
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}

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