Crossword clues for overtop
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overtop \O`ver*top"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overtopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtopping.]
To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. ``To o'ertop old Pelion.''
--Shak.-
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. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.
--Becon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To be higher than, to rise over the top of.
WordNet
v. look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook]
[also: overtopping, overtopped]
Usage examples of "overtop".
Because he is not even as tall as Dorrin, his eyes must look up to Brede, who overtops everyone on the pier by a least half a head.
Temple of the Elder Ones with its sixteen carven sides, its flattened dome, and its lofty pinnacled belfry, overtopping all else, and majestic whatever its foreground.
Well, my dear reader, this little plant which should spring up like the poppies in the wheat, this plant which has never been seen growing higher than watercress, but which should overtop the oaks, this undiscoverable plant, I know where it grows.
Argo as they overtopped the ramp alongside the bastion gorge and came upon the banquette behind the crenellated battlement.
He had been roused from his bed to meet with Aedhir, and wore a hastily knotted cravat drooped over a rumbled shirt with a red justicoat drawn overtop.
Temple of the Elder Ones with its sixteen carven sides, its flattened dome, and its lofty pinnacled belfry, overtopping all else, and majestic whatever its foreground.
It was hard to believe that that lofty wooded rampart on the left which so overtops the Jungfrau was not actually the higher of the two, but it was not, of course.
He knew that he overtopped them all--Gretry, the Crookes gang, the arrogant, sneering Bears, all the men of the world of the Board of Trade.
She had become something nearly monstrous by then - her body had seemed nothing more than boobs and butt and belly, all overtopped by her pasty, perpetually dismayed face.
Thorman bid for Rohan in a syndicate of five Free ships, and he was able to overtop the Bendix Combine for it.
All the same, the two leading seamen on sentry duty at the gates (both of whom overtopped him by half a head) stiffened to attention at his approach.
At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.