"overpeer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From over- + peer.",
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      "form": "overpeers",
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          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:",
          "text": "[…] the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d,\nWont, through a secret grate of iron bars\nIn yonder tower, to overpeer the city,\nAnd thence discover how with most advantage\nThey may vex us with shot, or with assault.",
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          "text": "1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16,\nIn Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her."
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        "To peer over; to overlook."
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          "text": "The ocean, overpeering of his list,\nEats not the flats with more impetuous haste\nThan Young Laertes, in a riotous head,\nO’erbears Your offices.",
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          "text": "1896, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Forge in the Forest, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Part I, Foreward, p. 12,\nThese patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood."
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        "To rise above."
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        "(figuratively) To rise above."
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      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
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  "word": "overpeer"
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        }
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        }
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        "To rise above."
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        "(figuratively) To rise above."
      ],
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