Crossword clues for overpassed
overpassed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overpass \O`ver*pass"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overpassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overpassing.] [Cf. Surpass.]
To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
To pass above; -- of roadways and other paths; as, the highway overpasses the railroad tracks.
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To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
All the beauties of the East He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.
--Milton. To surpass; to excel. [R.]
--R. Browning.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: overpass)
Usage examples of "overpassed".
It's the same flier as just now overpassed us and last night we saw in the snowfall—the flier who raised the stampede and whose riders guided it against us!
Every conceivable aid, method, stratagem, mechanism, by which these last desperate eight hundred yards could be overpassed by a human being unperceived, was revolved in her busy brain, and dismissed as impracticable.