overtopped

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verb appear, often imposingly

1560s, from over- + top (v.). Related: Overtopped; overtopping.

The Tree of Life had pierced the heavens; it overtopped the stars.

But though surrounded by other sorts, they were overtopped by none.

Swami Ram Juna overtopped them all in inches, as in serenity.

Then she bent forward slowly, as she overtopped a huge billow.

The women of the Confederacy had one want, which overtopped all others.

But she was taller than the rest and overtopped them all by a head.

But in this labour of purveyorship he overtopped the rest, the giant of them all.

The rifle which he held in front of him overtopped him by at least a foot.

I climbed a young but good-sized plane which overtopped the wall.

When standing he overtopped every man in a regiment of six-footers.