overwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwalks
form: overwalking
form: overwalked
form: overwalked
Etymology: From over- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: We overwalk the bounds of time, / Yet ne'er forget our younger days, / For in the heart some soft sweet chime / Of feeling's music mutely plays; […]
ref: 1857, James Smart Linwood, The Dream of Freedom and Other Poems, page 47:
text: The scenery we cherished — by which I really mean, I fear, but four or five of us — has now been grossly and utterly sacrificed; in the sense that its range was all for the pedestrian measure, that to overwalk it was to love it and to overwalk it, and that no such relation with it as either of these appears possible or thinkable to-day.
ref: 1914, Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother:
text: Yellow-throated devil's claw, prairie gentian, and ground cherry—all first described here by Lieutenant William Albert of Kearney's Mexican War Army—had burst up by the roadside, long stitcheries of snow fence seamed the pastures, and where cattle had overwalked their turf, spurge and knapweed took the place of bluestem and wheatgrass.
ref: 2010, Alan Tennant, On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with a Peregrine Falcon:
text: When zombies actually begin to appear and quickly overrun (or, rather, slowly overwalk) Shaun's city, we realize that they are just as introverted and hangry (hungry/angry) as they are purported to be—and definitely seem to go out of their way to find, eat and kill everyone.
ref: 2011, Robert Smith, Stacey Smith, Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies:
glosses: To walk over or upon.
examples: text: It turned out that we had overwalked the bounds vaguely prescribed by our permit, and according to his statements must have scared a hundred birds, though we had seen never a one.
ref: 1906, The Climbers’ Club Journal, volume 9, page 62:
text: It might be between strokes at golf , when the Head and his partner had overwalked their ball by forty yards, and their opponents were calling on them to return; or it might be in the intervals of a cricket-match, when the game had ceased to demand our undivided attention; or again, as we trotted with him down the Hundred from the queer old court by the vinery; or under the ruined wall of Falside Casle, as we sheltered for a moment from the storm.
ref: 1906, Robert Jameson Mackenzie, Almond of Loretto, page 80:
text: It probably happens that we know its position only in a general way, say "between the post office and the National Bank." We have been there many and many a time, but still we overwalk it time and again, and frequently overwalk it coming back.
ref: 1915 December, “Does Your Store "Stand Out?"”, in Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions, volume 49, page 68:
glosses: To walk past, especially without noticing.
examples: text: If it please our adorable Master that I come, I will be sure not to overwalk myself , and take the best care I can not to exceed either in length, or in exertion of voice.
ref: 1844, Edwin Sidney, The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, page 173:
text: "I won't over-walk myself," he said, cheerfully. "If the coach doesn't overtake me on the road, I can wait for it where I stop to breakfast. Dry your eyes, my dear; and give me a kiss."
ref: 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 4th (Aldborough, Suffolk), pages 176–177:
text: "I used to tell her not to overwalk herself this weather," said Clym, with distress.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:
text: A day comes when you are excited, or unduly ambitious and, without perceiving it at the time, you overwalk yourself .
ref: 1908, Luther Halsey Gulick, Mind and Work, page 50:
text: He who will be systematic in camping is like Robert Louis Stevenson's friend who overwalks himself in his effort to make record time.
ref: 1918 October, Elizaveth Kellam, “Method on the High Road”, in The Vassar Miscellany Monthly, volume 4, number 1, page 19:
text: On fitness walk workout days, you should move at a conversation pace, paying attention not to overwalk or become out of breath.
ref: 2014, Megan Searfoss, See Mom Run, page 75:
glosses: To walk excessively; to walk too far or too quickly.
examples: text: Moreover by placing a slight load on the men the present tendency of the men to overwalk the laden mules on level ground or down hill slopes, would be reduced.
ref: 1888, Minutes of Proceedings [of The] Royal Artillery Institution, page 406:
text: Can I overwalk my Maltipoo?
ref: 2018, David Anderson, The Complete Guide to Maltipoos:
text: If they are overwalked, these processes could develop the wrong muscle patterning, which does not create a puppy that is strong and stable for the inside.
ref: 2022, Julia Robertson, How to Build a Puppy: Into a Healthy Adult Dog, page 3-48:
glosses: To take on too many walks, or cause to walk too far or too quickly.
examples: text: I accosted him with all the Distance and Regard that I thought was due to his Character; and, indeed, his Deportment and Reply was decent and genteel, he was bound for Northampton as well as myself, he told me, and, provided I would not overwalk him, would gladly embrace the Benefit of my Company.
ref: 1754, Frank Hammond, The History and Adventures of Frank Hammond, page 82:
text: In walking forward, take care that the hinder man does not overwalk the former, or the chain will have a bight dragging on the ground, links will catch in something and get bent, and the error of the chain will be very different when retested to what it was before landing.
ref: 1909, William James Lloyd Wharton, Sir Arthur Mostyn Field, Hydrographical Surveying, page 69:
glosses: To overtake while walking; to walk faster than
examples: text: Spain has the overwalked Camino plus more exciting walking in its mountain ranges, including the Pyrenees, the limestone Picos de Europa and the Sierra Nevada near Grenada, where Moorish influences are evident in the whitewashed villages.
ref: 2010, Gillian Souter, Slow Journeys: The Pleasures of Travelling by Foot, page 65:
glosses: To walk on too much.