ὑπερβάλλουσαν (hyperballousan)

ὑπερβάλλουσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπερβάλλω, meaning “throw over; surpass, cross”. It is the present active participle accusative singular feminine.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agesilaus 27.1: ἐν δὲ Μεγάροις, ὅτε τὴν στρατιὰν ἀπῆγεν ἐκ Θηβῶν, ἀναβαίνοντος αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸ ἀρχεῖον εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, σπάσμα καὶ πόνον ἰσχυρὸν ἔλαβε τὸ ὑγιὲς σκέλος· ἐκ δὲ τούτου διογκωθὲν μεστὸν αἵματος ἔδοξε γεγονέναι, καὶ φλεγμονὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν παρεῖχεν.

Strabo, Geography 4.4.6·2: Ἔφορος δὲ ὑπερβάλλουσάν τε τῷ μεγέθει λέγει τὴν Κελτικήν, ὥστε ἧσπερ νῦν Ἰβηρίας καλοῦμεν ἐκείνοις τὰ πλεῖστα προσνέμειν μέχρι Γαδείρ …

All forms of ὑπερβάλλω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.