English Dictionary: overtop | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Overtop \O`ver*top"\, 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. |