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Overpeer

Overpeer \O`ver*peer"\, v. t. To peer over; to rise above.

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overpeer

vb. 1 To peer over. 2 (context figuratively English) To rise above.

Usage examples of "overpeer".

Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her.

And now beneath the rising sun, Whose shining chariot overpeers The irradiate ridge, while fetlock deep In the rich soil his coursers plunge - How grand in robes of light it looks!

It was a sort of laughing madman that accompanied Silver across the darkness and into the stern ravine which the house of Monterey overpeered, now, with a few lighted windows.

Lucian asked a question or two and the five came down the aisle, one pair leading, the other following, and Julian between, alone, overpeering all sitters, with a splendid air of being commander and in the saddle.

Under a dome of champagne-tint plastic overpeering the glittering gorges of the skytowers, people in multihued scapulars mill around cube screens meshing together segments for the next news-clip feedout.