Overset

Quick meaning: Overset is a verb meaning To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.

Meaning

To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.

More Meanings

1. To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
2. To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
3. To translate (a text).
4. To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
5. To recover from (an illness).
6. To cover (the surface of something) with objects.
7. To oppress or overwhelm (someone, their thoughts, etc.); to beset; also, to overpower or overthrow (someone, an army, a people, etc.) by force; to defeat, to overwhelm.

Example Sentences

[T]he poſtilion, in turning too ſuddenly from the turnpike to the croſs-road, overſet the carriage.

A great ſhip overſet, or vvithout faile / Hulling, might (vvhen this vvas a vvhelp) be like this vvhale.

VVe therefore truſted our ſelves to the Mercy of the VVaves, and in about half an hour the Boat vvas over-ſet by a ſudden Flurry from the North.

A reef between them also now began / To show its boiling surf and bounding spray, / But finding no place for their landing better, / They ran the boat for shore, and overset her.

Word Forms

• oversets
• oversetting
• oversettest
• oversettedst
• oversetteth
• over-set

Synonyms for overset

Depending on context, synonyms include discompose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overwrite, overdeck, becover, cover, overcover, overpour.

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