OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14739

overlook

/ˈəʊ.vəˌlʊk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mirador
A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.
Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other f…
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 14740

overlook

/ˌəʊ.vəˈlʊk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pasar por alto • pasársele de alto
To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
Let not thy Garden be without this herbe Humilitie. It may be least respected with men; and among other herbs ouerlooked; but most acceptable to God.
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dejar pasar por alto • hacer la vista gorda • no tener en cuenta • pasar por alto
To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
1615, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie, London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “Ehud and Eglon,” p. 48, Euery circumsta…
I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.
atalayar
To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 33, 13 July, 1724, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 269, I lean’d back in my Chair, and overlook’d what he was…
[…] you had need cause the party whome you will drawe to sit […] without stirring or altering the mouth were it neuer so little: wherefore you shall I beleeue find (a mans face) ab…
otear
To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
And therefore I trust thou vvylt accept it as it is, specially considering, that I neither had leysure, nor quietnesse at the dooing of it, neither after the dooing had euer any ty…
Now when he had ouerlooked his armie ouer euerie side, he paused awhile, and after with a lowd voice and bold spirit spake to his companions these, or the like words following.