OVERTOPPED Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

overtopped

verb

Definition of overtopped next

past tense of overtop

as in exceeded

to be greater, better, or stronger than a manager whose arrogance was overtopped only by his ineptitude

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lost (to)

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Recent Examples of overtopped 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 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 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 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

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During key periods like the pandemic boom and another surge in 2025, trading card indexes tracking Pokémon sales posted gains that far exceeded the S&P 500's long-term average annual return of 10% to 12%, according to trading card valuation tool Card Ladder.

— Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
While all samples met federal primary drinking water standards for contaminants, such as lead and copper, every site exceeded secondary standards, which are linked to taste, odor, discoloration, and, critically, corrosion in pipes.

— Bridget Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026