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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Etymology
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
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
Luck had proved so tricksy a sprite that the most trivial object might well take its fancy and overset the balance of its favours.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 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
To supply this want, they filled all the empty casks in the ship with sea water, which was some help and made the ship to bear more upright, and be in less danger of oversetting.
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 Edward Lucas White
Renwick's furious rush brought them with a thud against the wall, where they fell, oversetting a table to the floor.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
Clacher, looking absolutely hideous in his excitement, rushed from his chair, oversetting a small table, and planting himself firmly before the wondering piper, shouted, 'You are Bonnie Prince Charlie?'
From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson
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