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单词 overclimb
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overclimbv.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈklʌɪm/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈklaɪm/
Forms: see over- prefix and climb v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, climb v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + climb v. Compare Middle Dutch overclimmen (Dutch overklimmen ), Middle High German überklimmen (German überklimmen ). Compare also to climb over (see climb v. 2).
Now chiefly poetic and archaic.
transitive. To climb over; to get over by climbing; to surmount. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > climb over
surmounta1533
overclimba1547
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) iii. ix. 73 Alexander..hrædlice þone weall self oferclom.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 713 (MED) Mony klyf he ouer-clambe in contrayez straunge.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv This fatall gin thus ouerclambe our walles, Stuft with armd men.
1607 T. Tomkis Lingua i. v The..childhood of the cheerful morn Is almost grown a youth, and overclimbs Yonder gilt eastern hills.
1641 G. Wither Halelviah 3 To this Consort, (when we sing) Whistling Winds your Descants bring. That our Song may over clime, All the Bounds of Place and Time.
1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. iv. 121 But soon she overclimbs the craggy height, And broad in heaven unfolds her peerless light.
1868 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh (ed. 2) II. xxvii. 273 If not, the very ruins of our wall Will be a rampart hard to overclimb, When men like us upon it take our stand.
1882 ‘Ouida’ Bimbi v. 149 A loggia..all overclimbed by hardy rose-trees.
1976 G. Ewart No Fool i. 36 He overclomb cliffs in that far country.
1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 9 The crew could see no way other than applying maximum power in an attempt to overclimb the Mull of Kintyre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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