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dejar pasar por alto — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • overlook verb To fail to notice something, or to miss it despite it being there.

Senses

dejar pasar por alto is used for these senses in English:

  • gloss over (transitive, idiomatic) To treat something with less care than it in some ways deserves; to ignore, or at least to discount or dismiss for the current purposes.
  • overlook To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

overlook — full definition

  1. verb To fail to notice something, or to miss it despite it being there.
  2. verb To choose not to hold something against someone; to let a mistake pass without punishing it.
  3. verb To have a view down over something from a higher position.
  4. noun A point or spot that gives a wide view down over an area.

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