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Overlook   /ˈoʊvərlˌʊk/   Listen
Overlook

verb
(past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)
1.
Look past, fail to notice.
2.
Be oriented in a certain direction.  Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over.  "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
3.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
4.
Look down on.  Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop.
5.
Watch over.
noun
1.
A high place affording a good view.





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"Overlook" Quotes from Famous Books



... sad that we didn't meet long ago. I think I have been waiting for you. I suppose we have met too late? You couldn't overlook my being an old fellow, could ...
— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie
... and lends to Peru, or Guatemala, or Tierra del Fuego, or some shaky place he knows nothing about. The insular maniac overlooks the continent of Europe, instead of studying it, and seeking what countries there are safe and others risky. Now, why overlook Prussia? It is a country much better governed than England, especially as regards great public enterprises and monopolies. For instance, the directors of a Prussian railway can not swindle the shareholders by false accounts, and passing off loans for dividends. ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... heard them say Mrs. Van Burnam came against her husband's wishes. He did not want her to leave Haddam, but she would, and he was none too pleased at it. Indeed they had words about it, and as both our rooms overlook the same veranda, I could not help hearing ...
— That Affair Next Door • Anna Katharine Green
... by special attributes of his own. Owing to the extravagant admiration professed by Byron for the author of the Rape of the Lock, and his repeated assurances of his literary indebtedness to him, we are apt to overlook the fact that the noble lord was under obligations to Dryden of a character quite as weighty as those he was so ready to acknowledge to Pope. But the latter, like Shakespeare, so improved all he borrowed that he has in some instances actually received credit for ...
— English Satires • Various
... being forewornd against it, levelld his gun and killd B: and afterwards it should be forgot, that the witness also swore that A immediately advancd & pushd his bayonet at C, which passd between his waistcoat and his skin; if this I say should be forgot, and should be overlookd by the jury when they are together, perhaps instead of bringing it in murder according to the rules of the law laid down by the bench, they would bring it in manslaughter—I do not here affirm that this has ever ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams


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