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
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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
Perhaps he knew only that in a second his world was overset and he cast on the mercy of the ogres he saw about him.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
Anne lighted the lamp, oversetting the match safe and using up half a dozen matches before her shaking hands could accomplish the task.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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 Johann David Wyss
They are about fourteen feet long, and, being very narrow, are fitted with an outrigger to prevent their oversetting.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr
It was a little broad boat, blunt in the bows, wide in the stern, the sort of boat you can sit on the side of without oversetting, and very suitable for Chippy's purpose this night.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
Tea had been waiting for some time at the house before Richard Glaire made his appearance—for he had of late insisted upon oversetting the old-fashioned homely customs of his boyhood, and dined late.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
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