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Overtop definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OVERTOP', v.t.
1. To rise above the top.
2. To excel; to surpass.
3. To obscure; to make of less importance by superior excellence.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: circa 1594 1. to rise above the top of 2. to be superior to 3. surpass

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-topped, -topping) 1 be or become higher than. 2 surpass.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. ``To ? 'ertop old Pelion.'' --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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Rise above, surpass in height. 2. Excel, transcend, surpass, exceed. 3. Obscure, make less important, eclipse. 4. Transgress, disregard, go beyond.