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Definition of Overstride
1. v. t. To stride over or beyond.
Definition of Overstride
1. Verb. (intransitive) to run or walk with an overly long stride ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to stride (or to stand) over something ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) to excel or surpass ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overstride
1. [v -STRODE, -STRIDDEN, -STRIDING, -STRIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstride
Literary usage of Overstride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Whitgift by John Whitgift, John Ayre (1851)
"What these stumbling-blocks are, and how you will help the weaker and simpler
sort to overstride them, wo shall see in the discourse that ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"Should the disease overstride this boundary, it was to be tried again. Dobson is
said to have proposed much the same process as early as 1828. ..."
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