overset

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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

"Those towering castles at stern and prow did but increase the ship's leeway, made her sink too deep in the water, and tended to overset her."

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert