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leap

verb

1 he leapt over the gate:

jump over, jump, vault over, vault, spring over, bound over, hurdle, skip (over), cross over, sail over, hop (over), leapfrog, high jump, clear, negotiate.

2 Claudia leapt to her feet:

spring, jump, jump up, bound, dart;

lunge.

3 we leapt to the rescue:

rush, hurry, hasten, hurtle.

4 she had leapt at the chance:

accept eagerly, grasp, grasp with both hands, grab, take advantage of, seize (on), snatch, jump at, pounce on.

▷antonyms reject.

5 she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark:

arrive at hastily, reach hurriedly, come to overhastily, form hastily, hurry, hasten, jump, rush, reach.

6 profits leapt by 55%:

increase rapidly, soar, rocket, skyrocket, shoot up, escalate, mount, surge, spiral, grow rapidly, rise rapidly.

▷antonyms fall, plummet.

noun

1 he had cleared the brook in an easy leap:

jump, vault, spring, bound, hop, skip;

Ballet entrechat;

rare curvet.

2 the figures unveiled last week showed a leap of 33%:

sudden rise, rapid increase, escalation, soaring, surge, upsurge, upswing, upturn;

increment, elevation;

revival.

▷antonyms drop.

□ by leaps and bounds (also in leaps and bounds)

productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds:

rapidly, swiftly, quickly, speedily, at an amazing rate, exponentially;

informal in no time (at all).

▷antonyms slowly.

leap Oxford Dictionary of English