English

Verb

overleap ‎(third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleaped or overleapt)

1. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:

     Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].

2. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.]
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 141:

     It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.

References

• overleap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913