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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

The canoes were again overset in attempting to land near Port de Angeles, at a place where cattle were seen feeding, and another man was drowned.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

Tea had been waiting for some time at the house before Richard Glaire made his appearance—for he had of late insisted upon oversetting the old-fashioned homely customs of his boyhood, and dined late.

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville

Anton Rubinstein sprang to his feet, oversetting the piano-chair in which he had been sitting.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton

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 Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

As we swept around the corner the sledge was whirled in air, turned upon its side and only saved from complete oversetting by the positions of Kanchin and myself.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace

After they had gone some 400 miles, however, their journey by the river came to a sudden end by the oversetting of their canoe, and the loss of almost all their equipments.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various




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