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Meanings of overtop in English

Spanish
dominar

To look down on.

        dominar
        Usage of overtop in English
        1
        One is inclined to wonder if they do not overtop the feeling.
        The Women of the French Salons
        2
        Users can install the update overtop the March edition, Microsoft said.
        Reuters
        3
        The walls were immensely lofty-thetallest trees did not overtop them.
        The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
        4
        Great trees have grown up within them and now overtop them.
        Confessions of Boyhood
        5
        He wore a standard unisex jumpsuit, with his ambassadorial sash overtop of it.
        A Place so Foreign
        6
        He would overtop that, and how highly no man was prepared to say.
        Lewis Rand
        7
        There, in the far distance, a bizarre feature seemed to overtop its flat course.
        Blood and Bone
        8
        It would overtop the Houses of Parliament, and even the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
        Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa...
        9
        A flood equal to that of 1922 will overtop the locks by four feet.
        Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
        10
        By two and three thousand feet the snow-caps overtop them.
        The Land of Little Rain
        11
        Otherwise they would overtop and shadow the other garden plants.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
        12
        Well, I will drink to her, for her mind could even overtop my own.
        Dawn
        13
        Senna's breath came short and clipped, little choppy waves overtop an ocean of awfulness.
        The irish warrior
        14
        The big pumping wheels still overtop the willows, and cast their shadows over the lettuce-fields.
        The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Volume 2
        15
        The author actually reached the climax, and all attempts to overtop him would be useless.
        Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Withi...
        16
        Both mother and father were above the average height, but he would overtop them both.
        The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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        Translations for overtop
        Spanish
        dominar
        Overtop through the time