overpeer, over-peer (v.) Old form(s): ouer-peer'd , ouer-peere
look down on, look out over, overlook
1H6 I.iv.11[Master Gunner to Boy] the English ... / Wont through a secret grate of iron bars / In yonder tower to overpeer the city
3H6 V.ii.14[Warwick alone, of the cedar] Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree
MV I.i.12[Salerio to Antonio] your argosies with portly sail ... / Do overpeer the petty traffickers / That curtsy to them
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