Verb (used with object) : a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings. ,No individual shall overtop the law. ,a rise in sales that overtopped everyone in the industry.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was which of us should overtop the other in sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message] Reference

Some people call that overtop, and that's just splash-over.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

One is inclined to wonder if they do not overtop the feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Otherwise they would overtop and shadow the other garden plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

We're not sure if we're talking about an overtop situation or a breach.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference

This looks like we have a levee that is maybe being a little bit overtop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

One only thing can overtop it, and that is duty as put into my hands by my.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference

If water should overtop the first, it would flood those homes in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2009] Reference

They've not been breached, and he does not expect the river to overtop them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference

He wore a standard unisex jumpsuit, with his ambassadorial sash overtop of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place so Foreign] Reference

They're talking about surges that even if the levees held will overtop the levees.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference

Taller seedlings may be used in cogonal areas so they will soon overtop the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

But you know, they're not all going to break, and they're not all going to overtop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference

So how likely is it that the storm surge, in fact, is going to overtop those levies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

But, you know, they're not all going to break, and they're not all going to overtop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference

It is going back into the hillside and there is about 250 feet of cover overtop of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006] Reference

Perhaps storm surges that could overtop the levies, as John mentioned, in New Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

There were no seawalls on the 17th Street canal or the others, yet they didn't overtop.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans State of Mind] Reference

RIGGS: It won't take much of a storm surge, once that thing's overtop, to blow this thing out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2009] Reference

Further heavy rain may burst or overtop already stressed dams and levees in Wisconsin and Iowa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floods Threaten Midwest's Economy] Reference

No one thing could seem to him to overtop all others as he had tried to make it in the first months with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

There are cracks in the levee and the water is overtop, and parts of the Lower Ninth Ward is now flooded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

It's going to be very close on whether or not the surge is going to be high enough to overtop those levies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

Thorman bid for Rohan in a syndicate of five Free ships, and he was able to overtop the Bendix Combine for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncharted Stars]

And Sean, right now, how concerned are they that the banks could overtop and that we could be looking at flooding.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

Triple digit wind gusts not only forced water to overtop levees in the Gulf Region but snapped power lines as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008] Reference

If it just sits there for a while, and the water goes over the top of it nice and slowly, that's called an overtop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference

VAN HEERDEN: Well, the main problem is that the surge can still get into the city, it can still overtop the levees.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2005] Reference

As pines and hardwood tree species overtop them and the canopy begins to close, more shrubs and small trees fill in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southeastern mixed forests] Reference

There's a road called Surrey Street not far from here where they're expecting it -- that it might overtop at Surrey Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

Mr. HARRIS: Worst-case scenario would be oil moving in on a storm, because then it would overtop the boom, overtop the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Threatens Brown Pelican Off Of Louisiana Coast] Reference

And if the water gets deeper than the design for that, the water will overtop that levee and flood the area behind that levee.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference

And even if the center passes to the east of New Orleans, we're still not confident that the waters will not overtop the levies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

So it is still very possible that the water could overtop some of those levies and cause flooding inside the levy protection system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference

Wire netting is stretched overtop of the deflecting cone to catch the lighter, more volatile embers which may defy the action of the cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964] Reference