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Overlook

verb

(past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)

Look past, fail to notice.

Be oriented in a certain direction. Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over. "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"

Leave undone or leave out. Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit. "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" Antonym: attend to.

Look down on. Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop.

Watch over.

noun

A high place affording a good view.

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"Overlook" Quotes from Famous Books

... suddenly appears a lake or river, sparkling and shimmering. There is green grass at the water-side. White-winged birds float on it, and trees dip their leafy branches into its coolness. Sometimes great palaces and towers overlook it. Sometimes it seems a lonely spot, quiet and peaceful, and delicious for the weary ...

— The Story of General Gordon • Jeanie Lang

... great maritime powers, whilst it ought to make us more thankful for the general peace and security enjoyed by the United States, reminds us at the same time of the circumspection with which it becomes us to preserve these blessings. It requires, also, that we should not overlook the tendency of a war, and even of preparations for war, among the nations most concerned in active commerce with this country, to abridge the means and thereby, at least, to enhance the price of transporting its valuable productions to their proper market." To the serious ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... with feelings of the deepest regret that we find ourselves obliged to conclude the publication of our Journal in this sudden and unexpected manner, but we feel sure that the great indulgence of the Public will overlook this, as it has done many other great errors in ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... apartment to have their tea; and Mrs. Ch'in attended to the laying out of fruit and wines for lady Feng, and hurriedly entered the room and hinted to Pao-y: "Dear uncle Pao, your nephew is young, and should he happen to say anything disrespectful, do please overlook it, for my sake, for though shy, he's naturally of a perverse and wilful disposition, and is rather given to having his ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... who seems clearly guilty should not be condemned or punished unless every consideration which may tend to establish innocence or throw doubt upon guilt has been fully weighed. The unassisted tribunal will be quite likely to overlook these considerations. Public sentiment approves the judgment and the punishment in the case of John W. Webster. But certainly he should never have been convicted without giving the fullest weight to his previous character and to the slightness ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

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