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What does overleap mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.]
  2. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.]
  3. (dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
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The flowers that overleap all bounds in this section are the houstonias.
We cannot overleap the barriers by which Life is constrained.
American slaveholders desperately feared that Haiti's fires of revolt would overleap those few hundred miles of sea and inflame their own human chattel.
Some were seen springing high in the air, as if to overleap the pit.
The world hungers for a voice which will overleap the frontiers of nations and of classes.
The Latin of thy namesake Jerome is a barrier I cannot overleap.

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