overset
Americanverb (used with object)
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to upset or overturn; overthrow.
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to throw into confusion; disorder physically or mentally.
verb (used without object)
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to become upset, overturned, or overthrown.
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Printing.
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(of type or copy) to set in or to excess.
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(of space) to set too much type for.
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noun
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the act or fact of oversetting; upset; overturn.
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Also called overmatter. Printing. matter set up in excess of space.
verb
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to disturb or upset
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printing to set (type or copy) in excess of the space available
noun
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Origin of overset
Example Sentences
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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
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
We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.
From Time Magazine Archive
The disappointed Juliet, utterly overset, was still dejectedly ruminating in the corridor, when she heard the servants of Mrs Howel announce, that their lady's carriage was ready.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
I remembered that savage nations made use of an out-rigger, to prevent their canoe oversetting, and this I determined to add to my work.
From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Wyss, Johann David
At length a tremendous crack of a whip saluted the tympanum of my ear, and I started up broad awake, nearly oversetting the chair on which I reclined—and, lo!
From Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Groome, Francis Hindes
Clemency narrowly escaped oversetting the tea-board, in her emotion at this question.
From The Battle of Life by Dickens, Charles
I know how to drive and poise myself so as to keep my chariot right side up, and I never think of oversetting, I think of winning my race, and always do.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
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 Fenn, George Manville
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