Synonyms of overtopped

overtopped

verb

past tense of overtop

as in exceeded

to be greater, better, or stronger than

a manager whose arrogance was overtopped only by his ineptitude

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exceeded
• surpassed
• topped
• eclipsed
• excelled
• outstripped
• outdistanced
• outshone
• transcended
• towered (over)
• outclassed
• outmatched
• beat
• outdid
• bettered
• defeated
• outgunned
• overcame
• overshadowed
• mastered
• went one better
• surmounted
• overpassed
• outpaced
• outran
• outweighed
• conquered
• routed
• ran circles around
• licked
• prevailed (over)
• crushed
• outcompeted
• overmatched
• trounced
• outperformed
• clobbered
• trimmed
• walloped
• subdued
• won (against)
• outraced
• bested
• thrashed
• triumphed (over)
• shamed
• whipped
• worsted
• trumped
• drubbed
• skunked
• one-upped
• outbalanced
• overbore

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lost (to)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of overtopped

The dam was in the process of being turned over to area residents when the failure occurred, releasing a torrent that also overtopped the downstream Sanford Dam and flooded the city of Midland. — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026

Workers began clearing debris and mud at first light from a catchment area where material had overtopped concrete barriers along the northbound shoulder. — Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026

The existing levee was just an inch or two away from being overtopped by floodwaters earlier this month, according to Orting’s mayor, Joshua Penner. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025

Both rivers have overtopped their banks, affecting residential areas, farmland, and roadways, though gradual declines are expected through Friday and into the weekend. — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025

Seawalls were overtopped in sections along Fort Lauderdale’s Riverwalk. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025

Because the flooding has been a growing concern for Juneau over the past several years, city officials with federal assistance installed emergency flood barriers along several miles of riverbanks in the areas deemed most at risk for being overtopped. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025

In 1941, a huge wave caused by a snow and ice avalanche that fell into Laguna Palcacocha, a glacial lake in the Peruvian Andes, overtopped the moraine dam that had contained the lake for decades. — Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025

Dunes and living levees — gently sloping barriers covered in vegetation — can be overtopped by waves or erode, damaging or possibly rendering nearby homes uninhabitable. — Lindsey J. Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2022