overlook

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To look is much less easy than to overlook, and to be able to see what we do see, is a great gift.

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  1. transitive verb To look over or at from a higher place.
  2. transitive verb To rise above, especially so as to afford a view over: The tower overlooks the sea.
  3. transitive verb To fail to notice or consider; miss.
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  • They'd reached an overlook, the land falling perhaps two hundred meters straight down a cliff. —  EBSCOhost
  • As they stood at the edge of an overlook, the ground's steady rumble suddenly grew in intensity. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • A few moments later another car pulled into the overlook, a big new Pontiac convertible with its top down. —  EQMM,July2007
  • "What essential do they overlook, as the anchorite and the crusader overlooked this same charity It may be liberality--regard to the Christian liberty of others;--it may be Let us not look too closely into their failures," said Toussaint. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
  • There are things which no man can overlook, and, if it meant death to me, I must again try conclusions with the brute He was accompanied by a little bald-headed Jew named Spitzstein, and we were almost abreast of them when I stepped forward and arrested them. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
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  1. from Middle English overlooken; from over + look.
 

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/ˈoʊvərlɑk/
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