Usually means: Fail to notice or consider.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word overlook:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. overlook: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overlook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overlook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overlook: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overlook: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overlook, overlook: Wordnik
  7. overlook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overlook: Wiktionary
  9. overlook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overlook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overlook: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overlook, overlook: Dictionary.com
  13. overlook (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overlook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overlook (disambiguation), Overlook, The Overlook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overlook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overlook: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overlook: Rhymezone
  19. overlook: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overlook: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overlook: Free Dictionary
  22. overlook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overlook: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overlook: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlook: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Overlook: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.
verb:  To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
verb:  To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
verb:  To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
verb:  To look down upon from above or from a higher location.
verb:  (archaic) To supervise, oversee; to watch over.
verb:  (archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
verb:  (archaic) To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
verb:  (archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

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