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overset

/verb oh-ver-set; noun oh-ver-set/US // verb ˌoʊ vərˈsɛt; noun ˈoʊ vərˌsɛt //

过头了,过载,过头,超额完成任务

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·set, o·ver·set·ting.

    • : to upset or overturn; overthrow.
    • : to throw into confusion; disorder physically or mentally.
v.无主动词 verb
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    o·ver·set, o·ver·set·ting.

    • : to become upset, overturned, or overthrown.
    • : Printing. to set in or to excess. to set too much type for.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or fact of oversetting; upset; overturn.
    • : Also called overmatter. Printing. matter set up in excess of space.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inreverse
as inupset

Examples

  • The captains huge hand, swinging back, overset the bottle, that gurgled out its life-blood.

  • With these words he left her; and, though abashed and overset, she found no sensation so powerful as joy for the safety of Edgar.

  • But the very theory of our Government will be overset by a reversal of the rule which I have attempted to describe.

  • He 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.