Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That has already passed; past.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overpass .
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Examples
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This amount of debt created by Obama already overpassed all America's accumulated debts for more than 200 years from all past administrations since George Washington's administration!
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William Goddard, never able to shake his disgruntlement at being overpassed in the system he created, left the office in a huff, and Bache placed Hazard in the vacant position.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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William Goddard, never able to shake his disgruntlement at being overpassed in the system he created, left the office in a huff, and Bache placed Hazard in the vacant position.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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And of the two they saw that their heads reached unto heaven, but of him that was led by them that it overpassed the heavens.
Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010
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Bonnard was jubilant when he tagged some tree-dwellers which Varian thought must be nocturnal since they didn't so much as move from their tree boles when the sled overpassed them.
Cattle Town 2010
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William Goddard, never able to shake his disgruntlement at being overpassed in the system he created, left the office in a huff, and Bache placed Hazard in the vacant position.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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And, you know, surely, if we can still pay out, you know, bonuses to bankers on Wall Street, it seems to me we can use some of these dollars to actually invest in poor communities that have been overlooked and overpassed for decades.
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This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.
Les Miserables 2008
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Passion annihilated his right judgment and love overpassed all limits in him; his vitals were occupied with her service and his heart was aflame with the fire of repine, so that he swooned away and fell to the ground.
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Thus the first step I took to extricate myself from my ignorance, overpassed the limits of all ages — the boundaries of time.
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