overset
to upset or overturn; overthrow.
to throw into confusion; disorder physically or mentally.
to become upset, overturned, or overthrown.
Printing.
(of type or copy) to set in or to excess.
(of space) to set too much type for.
the act or fact of oversetting; upset; overturn.
Also called overmatter. Printing. matter set up in excess of space.
Origin of overset
1Other words from overset
- o·ver·set·ter, noun
Words Nearby overset
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How to use overset in a sentence
The captains huge hand, swinging back, overset the bottle, that gurgled out its life-blood.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandWith these words he left her; and, though abashed and overset, she found no sensation so powerful as joy for the safety of Edgar.
Camilla | Fanny BurneyBut the very theory of our Government will be overset by a reversal of the rule which I have attempted to describe.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeHe came, with a part of his army composed of those very Catholics, to overset the power of a Popish prince.
There was about this letter an absence of sentiment, and an absence of threat, and an absence of fuss, which almost overset her.
Orley Farm | Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for overset
to disturb or upset
printing to set (type or copy) in excess of the space available
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