Overpeer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overpeer is a verb meaning To peer over; to overlook.
Meaning
To peer over; to overlook.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) To rise above.
Example Sentences
The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head, O’erbears Your offices.
[…] the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d, Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars In yonder tower, to overpeer the city, And thence discover how with most advantage They may vex us with shot, or with assault.
1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16, In Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her.
1896, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Forge in the Forest, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Part I, Foreward, p. 12, These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood.
Word Forms
- overpeers
- overpeering
- overpeered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oversee, overstare, overmaster, overgo, dominate, overlook.
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