overpeer

verbB1

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verb

V_es/s

overpeers

V_ing/Gerund

overpeering

V_ed/pp

overpeered

1.
To peer over; to overlook.
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.
2.
(figuratively)To rise above.
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.

Nguồn gốc từ

From over- + peer.