o|ver|pass

o|ver|pass «noun. OH vuhr _PAS, -_PAHS; verb. _OH vuhr PAS, -PAHS», noun, verb, -passed or -past, -pass|ing.

–n.

a bridge over a road, railroad, or canal: »

Drive several miles down the turnpike, around the cloverleaf, under an overpass (Atlantic).

–v.t.

1. to pass over (as a region or bounds): »

The next few miles would be no light thing for the whale-boats to overpass (Rudyard Kipling).

2. Figurative. to go beyond; exceed; surpass: »

Men Who overpass their kind (Robert Browning).

3. Figurative. to pass without notice; overlook; disregard: »

All the beauties of the East He slightly view'd, and slightly overpass'd (Milton).

–v.i.

1. to pass over or across something.

2. to pass by or away: »

I view her…As a sweet sunset almost overpast (William E. Henley).

3. Figurative. to remain unnoticed.