dominate, command, overlook, overtop
(verb) look down on; “The villa dominates the town”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
overtopping
present participle of overtop
overtopping (uncountable)
An instance of water going over the top of a barrier such as a sea wall or levee.
overtopping (comparative more overtopping, superlative most overtopping)
Surmounting, surpassing.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*top", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overtopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtopping.]
1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. "To old Pelion." Shak.
2. To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton.
3. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. Becon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
