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
Other Word Forms
- oversetter noun
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
The frail bateaux, tossing upon the merciless waves of Lake Erie, were overset, driven ashore, and many of them dashed to pieces.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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