overset
overset is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot. Addison.
- 2.To fill too full. [Obs.] Howell.
- 3.To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer.
- 4.An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.
- 5.An excess; superfluity. [Obs.] "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abase
- abasement
- about
- bend
- bob
- bow
- bring
- cast
- concavity
- couch
- courtesy
- cower
- crouch
- curtsy
- cut
- dash
- debase
- depress
- depressed
- depression
- detrude
- detrusion
- dip
- down
- drop
- duck
- dust
- ebb
- fall
- fell
- fling
- genuflection
- ground
- head
- hew
- horizontal
- knee
- kneel
- knock
- kowtow
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is overset.
- What is to cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot. Addison called?
- What is to turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer called?
- What is an upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage called?
- What is an excess; superfluity. [Obs.] "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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