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Overlook   /ˈoʊvərlˌʊk/   Listen
Overlook

verb
(past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)
1.
Look past, fail to notice.
2.
Be oriented in a certain direction.  Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over.  "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
3.
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.
4.
Look down on.  Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop.
5.
Watch over.
noun
1.
A high place affording a good view.





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"Overlook" Quotes from Famous Books



... intention to overlook nothing that would protect the ship should it encounter an enemy submarine en route, and, as the lad knew, it was just as possible they would encounter one in the English ...
— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake
... W. H. D., who expects to run a column presently, should not overlook the sure-fire wheeze, "Shoes shined on ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... "He overlook it! Let him dare to say such a word to me, and I would tell him that his opinion in this matter was of less moment to me than that of any other creature in all Nuremberg. What is it to him who comes to me? Were it but for him, I would bid the young ...
— Linda Tressel • Anthony Trollope
... been neatly darned. As for the silver, the speed with which Francis sent the forks and spoons to the kitchen and ordered them back, proved to me that the dozens were not complete. On the other hand, there was an abundance of cut glass, to which the Captain directed my attention lest I should overlook ...
— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint
... point where they could overlook what was going on around the fire, for the blaze was located in something of ...
— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield


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