overlook

A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.

To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.

Our hotel room overlooks the lake.

To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.

Đồng nghĩa: misheed, ignore, misheed, misregard, miss, overlook, overpass, oversee

To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.

1615, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie, London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “Ehud and Eglon,” p. 48, Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities: Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way, & bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end.

Đồng nghĩa: take no notice of, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, ignore, misheed, misregard, neglect, pass, pass by, pay no heed, put aside, set at nought, shrug off, slough, take no notice of, tune out, unheed, unmind

To look down upon from above or from a higher location.

The hill overlooks the valley.

Đồng nghĩa: survey, look over, luster, lustrate

(archaic)To supervise, oversee; to watch over.

to overlook a gang of laborers

to overlook one who is writing a letter

(archaic)To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.

1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 33, 13 July, 1724, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 269, I lean’d back in my Chair, and overlook’d what he was doing.—But, as if the young Rogue had had Eyes in his Elbows, he broke off what he had begun, and writ, thus, in a new Place.—If an impertinent Old Fellow, that sits by me, did not overlook what I am writing, I should have told you a pleasant Secret

1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” in The Watcher and Other Weird Stories, London: Downey, 1894, p. 133, The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.

(archaic)To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Iosephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 109, […] this was one of those spies which Moses sent to ouerlooke the land of Chanaan.

1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal No. 21, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 138, As the Meanness of my Education had hindered me from knowing any Thing of Law Affairs, I got my two Companions to overlook the Mortgage Deed, and with their Advice signed it […]

Đồng nghĩa: scrutinize, analyze, check, examine, inspect, thresh, look over, luster, lustrate, overlook, probe, scrutinate, scrutinize, study, survey

(archaic)To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.