overjump

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ jump.

Verb

overjump (third-person singular simple present overjumps, present participle overjumping, simple past and past participle overjumped)

1. (transitive) To jump over.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To omit or ignore.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […]

3. (intransitive) To jump too far or too high.

References

• “overjump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.