Crossword clues for overset
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overset \O`ver*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overset; p. pr. & vb. n. Oversetting. ]
To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.
--Dryden.To cause to fall, or to fail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.
--Addison.To fill too full. [Obs.]
--Howell.
Overset \O`ver*set"\, v. i.
To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.
--Mortimer.
Overset \O"ver*set`\, n.
An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.
An excess; superfluity. [Obs.] ``This overset of wealth and pomp. ''
--Bp. Burnel.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To set over (something); to cover. 2 (context intransitive English) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. 3 (context obsolete English) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat. 4 To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset. 5 To knock over, capsize, overturn. 6 (context now rare English) To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray. 7 (context printing English) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space. 8 (context transitive English) To translate. 9 To overfill.
Usage examples of "overset".
It was the end of an exile she had not known she bore, and it nearly overset her precarious emotional balance.
He has managed to keep Darkover on her present course for all these years, and he is not about to be overset by his sister, or anyone else.
A wave of dizziness so overset her that she stumbled and caught herself on the wall, hearing the moans, the cries, beseeching, begging.
Prince Bayan and Princess Sapientia brought a strong force here, but the Quman overset them and drove them northwest.
This naive comment completely overset Will, whose understanding of small girls was as deficient as his understanding of their elder sisters.
His smiling impudence, heightened by the fact that, for once, he had drunk more than was good for him, almost overset Meg.
I had only resolved to have fired four or five guns at them with powder only, which I knew would frighten them sufficiently: but when they shot at us directly with all the fury they were capable of, and especially as they had killed my poor Friday, whom I so entirely loved and valued, and who, indeed, so well deserved it, I thought myself not only justifiable before God and man, but would have been very glad if I could have overset every canoe there, and drowned every one of them.
She was overset by recent events and her natural independence was seeking any avenue it could find to express itself.
She had been consumed with guilt at first for having overset everyone.
What has happened since I saw you last, Venetia, to overset you, and make you regard your removal from this place as a matter of sudden urgency?
Hugh, totally overset by the unexpected accident, and conscience-struck at his own wilful share in risking it, was utterly helpless, and could only answer, that he wished young Mr.
I think it very grateful in any person to try to overset his particular wishes.
Orkborne, who, though copiously stored with the works of the ancients, had a sluggish understanding, and no imagination, was entirely overset by this intrusion.
A chair had been overset, the rug lay in folds as if plowed up by struggling feet, and scattered over it were many bits of shattered porcelain, remnants of a five hundred dollar Satsuma vase, though Vanaman could not know that.
Then, to find that, in spite of all his efforts, they were right back where they had started, had overset his normal control.