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verb
a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
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verb (used without object)
1.
to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
2.
to move or act quickly or suddenly: to leap aside; She leaped at the opportunity.
3.
to pass, come, rise, etc., as if with a jump: to leap to a conclusion; an idea that immediately leaped to mind.
verb (used with object)
4.
to jump over: to leap a fence.
5.
to pass over as if by a jump.
6.
to cause to leap: to leap a horse.
noun
Idioms7.
a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.
8.
the distance covered in a leap; distance jumped.
9.
a place leaped or to be leaped over or from.
10.
a sudden or abrupt transition: a successful leap from piano class to concert hall.
11.
a sudden and decisive increase: a leap in the company's profits.
12.
by leaps and bounds, very rapidly: We are progressing by leaps and bounds.
13.
leap in the dark, an action of which the consequences are unknown: The experiment was a leap in the dark.
14.
leap of faith, an act or instance of accepting or trusting in something that cannot readily be seen or proved.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English lepen, Old English hlēapan to leap, run; cognate with German laufen, Old Norse hlaupa, Gothic hlaupan
before 900; Middle English lepen, Old English hlēapan to leap, run; cognate with German laufen, Old Norse hlaupa, Gothic hlaupan
Related forms
leap·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
leap
O.E. hleapan "to jump, run, leap" (class VII strong verb; past tense hleop, pp. hleapen), from P.Gmc. *khlaupan (cf. O.S. hlopan, O.N. hlaupa, O.Fris. hlapa, Du. lopen, Ger. laufen "to run," Goth. us-hlaupan "to jump up"), of uncertain origin, with no known cognates beyond Germanic. The noun is O.E.
EXPAND hlyp (Anglian *hlep). Leap-frog, the children's game, is attested from 1590s.
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