overpeer

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ peer. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) === Verb === overpeer (third-person singular simple present overpeers, present participle overpeering, simple past and past participle overpeered) To peer over; to overlook. 1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16,[1] In Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her. (figuratively) To rise above. 1896, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Forge in the Forest, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Part I, Foreward, p. 12,[2] These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood. === References === “overpeer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.