alt. pt. of leap
This person has lept from one rock to another.
The definition of lept is the past tense of leap which is defined as to jump from one thing to another.
An example of lept is describing how someone has hopped from one stone to another stone.
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lept-
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Variant of lepto-
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Verb
- (archaic) Simple past tense of leap.
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Sentence Examples
- With campuses in Longview and Kilgore, Kilgore Junior College opened in the fall of 1935, a college designed for a town that lept in population from 800 to 15,000 in a matter of months following the oil boom in 1930.