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Synonyms for leap

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : leep
Phonetic Transcription : lip

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Définition of leap

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old English hleapan "to jump, run, leap" (class VII strong verb; past tense hleop, past participle hleapen), from Proto-Germanic *khlaupan (cf. Old Saxon hlopan, Old Norse hlaupa, Old Frisian hlapa, Dutch lopen, Old High German hlouffan, German laufen "to run," Gothic us-hlaupan "to jump up"), of uncertain origin, with no known cognates beyond Germanic. Leap-frog, the children's game, is attested by that name from 1590s; figurative use by 1704.
  • First loke and aftirward lepe [proverb recorded from mid-15c.]
  • Related: Leaped; leaping.
  • noun jump; increase
  • verb jump, jump over; increase
Example sentences :
  • Again we take a leap of about twenty years, and alight in the midst of the Revolution.
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • He had but to say to me, 'Leap into the water,' and I would not have stopped to pull off my coat.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He was throwing back the robe to leap from the sleigh when the figure reached him.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Kirkwood rose, balancing himself against the leap and sway of the boat.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Tired and weighted, she dared not try the leap; she skirted around.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
  • Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • It was idle; a magic seems to shield a captive's leap for life.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
  • If it please you to take a leap into nothing it were pity to thwart you.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He did not snarl at her, nor show his teeth, when any leap of hers chanced to put her in advance of him.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • The she-wolf was one leap behind One Ear and holding her own.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

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