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English
Etymology
From over- + jump.
Verb
overjump (third-person singular simple present overjumps, present participle overjumping, simple past and past participle overjumped)
- (transitive) To jump over.
- (transitive, obsolete) To omit or ignore.
c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: V S 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: […]
- (intransitive) To jump too far or too high.
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