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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“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 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 James Burney
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
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
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
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
Secondly—We shall point out the mistakes, some of them really surprising even in a foreign writer, with regard to names, dates, and circumstances, oversetting every congruity which it was manifestly Le Sage’s object to establish.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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