overjumps

Vaults too far

Overjumps is the third-person singular present tense of overjump, meaning to jump over or across something.

The term appears most often in equestrian contexts, where a horse overjumps when it leaps higher or farther than necessary to clear an obstacle.

The mare consistently overjumps the lower fences.

More rarely, it can mean to jump beyond a target or to skip over something entirely.

leaping

vault

Secure storage chamber

hop · clear · leap · lunge · pounce · bounce · launch · catapult · soar · propel

exceeding

surpasses

Exceeds in quality

overshoots · outpaces · surmounts · overtakes · eclipses · outperforms · outmatches · outdistances · oversteps · skips

error

miscalculation

Error in estimation

overestimate · blunder · miscue · overextension · overcommitment

Opposites
clearing vs. failing to clear

overjumpshits

Blows or successes

knocks down · clips · trips over · refuses

magnitude of jump

overjumpshops

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skips

jumping distance/accuracy

overjumpsfalls short

Fails to meet standard

undershoots

Family

jump, jumping, jumper, jumps, jumped, jumpers, outjump, outjumps, outjumped

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