overpeer

Definitions

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

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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