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Word Meanings - OVERSTRIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stride over or beyond.

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  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • STRIDENT
    Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.
  • STRIDE
    strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining
  • OVERSTRIDE
    To stride over or beyond.
  • ASTRIDE
    With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
  • OUTSTRIDE
    To surpass in striding.
  • POSTRIDER
    One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.
  • BESTRIDE
    1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak. 2. To step over; to stride

 

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