overtop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: overtop	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for overtop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overtop v look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overtop \O`vertop"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overtopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtopping}.] 1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. [bd]To [?] 'ertop old Pelion.[b8] --Shak. 2. To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop* the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. --Milton. 3. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. --Becon.