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Overlook Building Overlooking Fact Verb Window Place Pretty

word overlook
definition
verb
If a building or window overlooks a place, you can see the place clearly from the building or window.
Pretty and comfortable rooms overlook a flower-filled garden.
Jack Aldwych lived in a huge, old two-storeyed house overlooking Harbord.
If you overlook a fact or problem, you do not notice it, or do not realize how important it is.
We overlook all sorts of warning signals about our own health.
...a fact that we all tend to overlook.
If you overlook someone's faults or bad behaviour, you forgive them and take no action.
...satisfying relationships that enable them to overlook each other's faults.
inflections overlooksoverlookingoverlooked
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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