overset

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“The guard overset on me, so I spun back inside, and with some pressure by Mel on the backside, it made him step back,” Philon said of Driskel.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2018

Because the golden part is brighter, and in the center, it looks overset until you get close to the surface.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2018

He was a man on horseback who broke the hegemony of London and Paris, overset a degenerate regime, achieved a social and political revolution and established a humanitarian tyranny.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.

From Time Magazine Archive

Humiliation and grief had overset my judgment or I should not have argued at this moment with Cullen Mayle.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)