overtop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb look down on
    overlook; dominate; command.
    • The villa dominates the town

WordNet

O`ver*top" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Overtopped ; present participle & verbal noun Overtopping
Definitions
  1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. "To 'ertop 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.

Webster 1913