Word Meanings - OVERSTRIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To stride over or beyond.
Related words: (words related to OVERSTRIDE)
- 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