overpeer

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词形变化

overpeered overpeering overpeers 三单 overpeers overpeering 现在分词 overpeered 过去式 overpeered 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 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. 2.

    To rise above.

    比喻

    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.

词源

From over- + peer.

来源：wiktionary