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overset

[oh-ver-set, oh-ver-set] / ˌoʊ vərˈsɛt, ˈoʊ vərˌsɛt /




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“The guard overset on me, so I spun back inside, and with some pressure by Mel on the backside, it made him step back,” Philon said of Driskel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2018

Because the golden part is brighter, and in the center, it looks overset until you get close to the surface.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a man on horseback who broke the hegemony of London and Paris, overset a degenerate regime, achieved a social and political revolution and established a humanitarian tyranny.

From Time Magazine Archive

Humiliation and grief had overset my judgment or I should not have argued at this moment with Cullen Mayle.

From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

So real was the scene that he started away from the desk with a loud cry, oversetting his stool, and letting the heavy desk lid fall with a crash.

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn

They are about fourteen feet long, and, being very narrow, are fitted with an outrigger to prevent their oversetting.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Each canoe had a long out-rigger, to prevent them from oversetting.

From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

I cannot severely blame those who overset Episcopacy for their oversetting, nor those who brought it back for their bringing it back. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

It was a little broad boat, blunt in the bows, wide in the stern, the sort of boat you can sit on the side of without oversetting, and very suitable for Chippy's purpose this night.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore


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