Category:Overtop

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.