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English Dictionary: overtop by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overtop
v
  1. look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop]
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.
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