Word Finder - overlooking

definition

To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.

example

Our hotel room overlooks the lake.

definition

To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

example

These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.

synonyms

• misheed

definition

To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

example

I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.

synonyms

• take no notice of

definition

To look down upon (something) from a place that is over or above.

example

to overlook a valley from a hill

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To supervise, oversee; to watch over.

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to overlook a gang of laborers

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To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.

definition

To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

synonyms

• scrutinize

definition

To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

He led her to the window overlooking the street.

His house was built on a tree-covered knoll overlooking her farm, but part of Josh's land was visible from their porch.

Finally, he'd reached the top of a hill overlooking a small, familiar village that glowed with warmth.

She perked at the voice and strode to the landing overlooking the bottom floor.

Eden stood on top of the tavern overlooking the immortal city of the Grey God.

He emerged from the shadow world in a luxurious penthouse suite in Paris overlooking the Arc de Triomphe.

The kingdom perched on a cliff overlooking an ocean of velvet blue.

Xander stood near the railing overlooking the first floor, her phone in his hand.

He later reported Cooms lived in a large estate house overlooking a lake.

The next morning, Deidre found herself at the wall overlooking the red deserts of Hell.

Back to his condo, where the cat waited for him at the top of the stairs overlooking the front door.

With the support of the traders he founded a mission station on the hill overlooking the bay.

It is largely due to the overlooking of this phase of the question that an American statistician has fallen into the error of stating that about 16s.

They passed through two more doors before exiting into a cold desert night on the side of a mountain, overlooking the activity at the elevator's entrance.

Pushing himself away from the book that would reveal nothing he sought, he went to the small, square window overlooking the stone structure of the Sanctuary.

Unable to function from shock, he sat down on a rock overlooking the lake.

She spotted the place down the path, a point overlooking the valley.

She stood on a covered landing of a fortress made of black stones overlooking a parched desert beneath dual suns too faded to provide anything other than indirect light.

He sat at the window overlooking the street two dozen stories below.

She leaned against a wall, overlooking a stretch of rocky terrain punctuated with patches of yellow-green grass.

Long ago, before Sasha broke from the Council, he had stayed in a corner chamber overlooking the forest.

He opened a portal and crossed into the shadow world and then through a portal into a Japanese-style palatial estate overlooking Tokyo.

She didn't understand why until they reached the top, overlooking a deep canyon.

She turned away, crossed the road, and skirted the darkened helipad resting at the edge of a cliff overlooking an extensive valley.

He heard the shouts before they reached the helipad atop a cliff overlooking a valley.

Rhyn crossed his arms, irritated.  Kiki trotted from the patio into the house perched on a hill overlooking Tokyo.  He returned ten minutes later with a small briefcase, a jacket and a hard case for his iPad.  Rhyn opened the portal, and the two strode through it, back to the massive tree where Rhyn had lost Toby in the cold, wet French Alps.

A tingle of alarm went through Rhyn, but his head was too heavy for him to process it.  Instead, he focused hard on containing the power within him.  When he felt he wouldn't explode, he looked around.  Darkyn had claimed Kris's library and stood near a pane of windows overlooking the snowy Alps.

She opened the back door to a pleasant redwood deck overlooking a small, well-kept back yard.

He had no particular destination, but his meandering brought him to a hillside overlooking the new high school complex.

Noon found them back on the hill overlooking the old farmstead.

A small window overlooking the city was too small to squeeze through, and he saw no weapons.

Cursing, he went to the wall overlooking the meadow and spotted Vara atop his horse, awaiting his signal at the edge of the forest.

A railing lined the loft area overlooking the formal living area on the first floor.

Cat sat at the top of the stairs overlooking the main floor, as if to tell him where Jessi was.

She crossed to the railing of the loft area overlooking the formal living room with its two-story hearth.

To her surprise, he sat on the porch overlooking the beach.

When you think you don't, you're overlooking something.

Expensive cars lined the long drive to the mansion overlooking the hills.

She stood in the center of what looked like a ski lodge with one massive wall of windows overlooking the mountains.

The sea-front, overlooking the English Channel, stretches nearly 4 m.

The eastern façade overlooking the market-place was built in 1595-1628, in the Renaissance style, with three tiers of columns.

The northern face of the mountain, overlooking Table Bay, extends like a great wall some two miles in length, and rises precipitously to a height of over 3500 ft.

The view from the summit overlooking Table Bay is also one of much grandeur.

Gorinchem possesses several interesting old houses, and overlooking the river are some fortified gateways of the 17th century.

It lies near the border of Somersetshire, on the southern slope of a hill overlooking the river Yeo, in a fertile, well-wooded district.

Overlooking all smaller details, we may consider Asia to consist of a northern mass and a southern mass, too rigid to crumple, but not too strong to fracture, and an intermediate belt of softer rock which was capable of folding.

A so-called Roman camp, on an elevation overlooking the sea, is actually a modern beacon.

Here, overlooking the harbour, is the khedivial yacht club (built 1903) and the palace, also called Ras et-Tin, built by Mehemet Ali, a large but not otherwise noteworthy building.

Abandoned by almost all his adherents Benedict found refuge in the castle of Peniscola on an impregnable rock overlooking the Mediterranean, and remained intractable.

Bernadotte, we have seen, had marched to Dornburg, or rather to a point overlooking the ford across the Saale at the village of that name, and reached there in ample time to intervene, on either field.