Crossword clues for overlooking
overlooking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overlook \O`ver*look"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overlooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Overlooking.]
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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to be situated above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill; a hotel room that overlooks the marketplace. ``The pile o'erlooked the town.''
--Dryden.[Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them.
--Shak. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
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To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly. ``Overlook this pedigree.''
--Shak.The time and care that are required To overlook and file and polish well.
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To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Shak.If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die.
--C. Kingsley. To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; to fail to notice; to fail to observe; as, to overlook a mistake in addition; to overlook a missing bolt.
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Hence: To refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to disregard or deliberately ignore; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse or pardon (a fault, error, or misdeed).
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked.
--Acts xvii. 30 (Rev. Ver. )They overlook truth in the judgments they pass.
--Atterbury.The pardoning and overlooking of faults.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of overlook English)
WordNet
adj. used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" [syn: commanding, dominating]
Usage examples of "overlooking".
Luckily, the city proper, which had taken the brunt of Kessell's attack, was on high ground overlooking the sheltered bay area.
Again the companions found themselves on a stone balcony, overlooking yet another corridor, a huge passageway, nearly a chamber in itself, with a high ceiling and decorated walls.
She was almost directly below him, on a small, flat clearing overlooking the wide, rolling terrain east of Mithril Hall.
She had been with Berg'inyon when the force had exited the tunnels, crossing out onto a ledge on a mountain overlooking a deep ravine.
The pair finally came to a spot overlooking a wide pass, the one true trail through this region of the Spine of the World.
He and Wulfgar stood on a high ridge overlooking the pass into Icewind Dale.
So here they were, overlooking a small, incredibly boring village they'd learned was expecting some sort of orc or goblin attack.
The two huddled over a meager fire on a high ridge, rubbing their hands and hardly paying attention to their obvious duty overlooking a winding pass in a gorge just beyond their position.
Catti-brie remarked to Drizzt a short time later, the two of them on a high bluff to the east of the remaining dwarves and the caravan, overlooking the city of Mirabar.
Obould asked his son as they stood overlooking the ruins of Clicking Heels.
Bolstered in the knowledge that she was still there, overlooking him, covering his flanks with that deadly bow of hers, the barbarian pressed on, sweeping another orc from the wall, and another.
Behind it was the dais overlooking the largest audience chamber in House Baenre.
At the upper end of the hall, across from the entrance, a great half-mask the size of a tower shield hung from the wall, overlooking the shrine.
They wound through hills and parked in a lot high on a ridge overlooking the dazzling, light-shot reaches of Los Angeles.
She could barely restrain herself from yanking aside the heavy drapes and throwing open the sliding glass doors that led to a redwood deck overlooking the sea.