(v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
(v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
(v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) I came to an overpass and looked at the railway lines beneath me.
(2) Militiamen took position on a highway overpass, offering cover as horse-mounted wranglers led protesters to face off against heavily equipped BLM rangers and snipers.
(3) A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that.
(4) It added: “Police urge the protesters to stay calm, and stop charging police cordon lines and occupying the main roads, so that the roads can be reopened to emergency and public vehicles.” Officers appeared to be expecting a long night, with scores sleeping on the floors of a concrete overpass and an office and shopping complex.
(5) A source at the Giza public prosecutor’s office said Regeni’s body was found on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, on an overpass close to Cairo’s 6th October district and that his body appeared to have been dragged along the ground.
(6) After passing Parque Hundido and the City of Sports stadium complex, the avenue flows into a different kind of downtown, becoming an overpass in places as it crosses vital arteries headed east and west.
(7) Back on the highway overpass outside Appleton, a full moon overhead, Gillian Dale and her colleagues flashed their plea to vote for Barrett.
(8) The meso-diencephalic level 3 appears to be a critical impairment point: as long as the level is not overpassed, the half of the patients do improve and 10% only die.
(9) Increasing these doses up to 10 fold did not improve the antithrombotic effect which did not overpass 60-70% of the controls.
(10) These types include: overpass cupping, cupping without pallor of the neuroretinal rim, cupping with pallor of the neuroretinal rim, focal notching of the neuroretinal rim, and bean-pot cupping.
(11) "They started firing gas from the overpass and attacking us from all directions."
(12) Deep cups, striate openings on the lamina cribrosa and blood vessel overpasses were significantly more seen in POAG than in LTG Hemorrhages on the disc were more frequent in LTG than in POAG.
(13) In a second attempt, we showed, that even a TEA was possible, using a ringstripper which cut a typical cylinder of the atheriosclerotic vessel wall overpassing and including the stent.
(14) Then the internal temperature is modified by the increasing ambient temperature, but there is a superior limit of this deep body temperature: when it is overpassed, a strong corrective mechanism is applied.
(15) They were faced with military-style AR-15 and AK-47 weapons trained on them from a picket line of citizen soldiers on an Interstate 15 overpass, with dozens of women and children in the possible crossfire.
(16) The 64-year-old retired schoolteacher was part of the Light Brigade, activists who make illuminated boards with Christmas lights and stand shoulder to shoulder on overpasses, each holding a different word to form phrases.
(17) When the mixture of the insecticides is used at a concentration of 0.20%, the levels of chlorfenvinphos after 14 days is not higher than 0.14 ppm; however, when it is used at a 0.15% concentration, this value is overpassed in all the samples.
(18) Local media published photos of the nine bloodied bodies, some with duct tape wrapped around their faces, hanging from the overpass along with a message threatening the Gulf cartel: "This is how I will finish all the fools you send."
(19) Long lastingly, therefore, Witch-Hunt has been either overpassed straight away or just attributed to violent and pathological a manifestation of collective craze as its own name indicates.
(20) What I’m prepared to do,” he said, “is not just the National Guard, but [to deploy] our department of public safety, our Texas Ranger recon team, parks and wildlife wardens … and I will suggest to you there will be other individuals who come to assist in securing that border.” Overpasses for America plans nationwide protests on highway overpasses on 9 August.
Overstep
Definition:
(v. t.) To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I knew this was a first amendment case, and that the secret service had overstepped its bounds, due generally to fear and suspicion of new computer media."
(2) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(3) In a statement to the Commons, he said it was a matter of great regret that his special adviser, Adam Smith, had felt forced to resign , but insisted he had known nothing about the "inappropriate" volume and tone of communications between Smith and News Corp. Hunt said he believed Smith had overstepped the mark "unintentionally" and had not believed he was giving anything more than advice on process.
(4) The row over the legality and wisdom of the deal made to secure Bergdahl’s release has intensified in recent days in Washington, where Republicans argue Obama overstepped his authority when he decided to release the Guantánamo prisoners, and that he has put American lives at risk.
(5) Off stage, I think the material is justified, because it is about intent: ultimately, Carol Thatcher thinks she has done nothing wrong, while I am aware of which lines I have overstepped and why.
(6) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
(7) Clifford, who has been involved in a sequence of high-profile tabloid stories, said he had been told by the police more than two years ago that his phone had been hacked: "I believed that this was a one-off, just two lads overstepping the mark.
(8) "When there is – in the PCC – already a channel to express dismay that a paper has overstepped the line, do people want a government body telling us what we can read and think?"
(9) Mourinho was fined £25,000 on Wednesday morning after the FA ruled he had overstepped the line with his remarks about the “campaign” against Chelsea and, later in the day, the governing body brought the charge against Costa, following Tuesday night’s stormy Capital One Cup semi-final against Liverpool, which Chelsea won.
(10) He said his special adviser had "overstepped the mark unintentionally".
(11) The resolution said the Turkish government had overstretched the state of emergency law introduced after last July’s coup, with “ruling through decree laws going far beyond what emergency situations require and overstepping the parliament’s legislative competence”.
(12) On the other hand, the use of explanations in a situation where understanding is required, is as unscientific as is an understanding that oversteps its methodology.
(13) 2.32pm GMT Smith says the press has challenged the intelligence services and reported on the Snowden leaks - but one newspaper, in seeking to raise important issues, has overstepped the mark to a degree that we are currently in a situation where national security is being threatened.
(14) Johnson Sr said he believed the BBC had overstepped the mark, and added: "One of the issues Eddie Mair totally failed to address was the Leveson thing.
(15) That she “oversteps the mark” – countermanding ministers and participating in top-level meetings and even cabinet discussions in ways senior Coalition figures believe is inappropriate for an unelected official.
(16) A vast majority of the Reddit community believes that Pao, ‘a manipulative individual who will sue her way to the top’, has overstepped her boundaries and fears that she will run Reddit into the ground,” wrote the author or authors of the petition.
(17) Jeremy Hunt doesn't call community mental services to ask who they're neglecting, he calls A&E to bellow at them for overstepping a four-hour wait.
(18) Mounting a forceful defence of the NSA, Obama said: “They’re not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls, or read your emails.” He did not mention that judges on the secret surveillance court have found NSA has repeatedly and “systematically” overstepped its bounds.
(19) His comments came hours after Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, said that detectives had “overstepped the mark” when they said the allegations were true.
(20) Feinstein and other senators on the committee were furious at what they argue was the CIA overstepping its constitutional powers by conducting an unauthorised, potentially criminal search of their staff computers.