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
The six expanded themselves into eight, and the consequence was that all Geoffrey’s plans were overset.
From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn
I cannot severely blame those who overset Episcopacy for their oversetting, nor those who brought it back for their bringing it back.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
It was a little broad boat, blunt in the bows, wide in the stern, the sort of boat you can sit on the side of without oversetting, and very suitable for Chippy's purpose this night.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
The little boat is fixed firm to the other by two bamboos placed across the great boat, one near each end, and its use is to keep the great boat upright from oversetting.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
Wilhelm and the three others now appeared with Otto; the boat was near oversetting as they brought him into it.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
To supply this want, they filled all the empty casks in the ship with sea water, which was some help and made the ship to bear more upright, and be in less danger of oversetting.
