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
They found a small boat overset upon a bank of sand; part of your clothes were in it, and they think you were both drowned.”
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
He rushed into the flood just as it was oversetting the helpless victim, and, with a tremendous jerk, threw him clean upon the green bank of the torrent.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
McTeague jumped up with a shout, oversetting the blanket.
From McTeague by Frank Norris
I know how to drive and poise myself so as to keep my chariot right side up, and I never think of oversetting, I think of winning my race, and always do.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
They imagine that at other times he amuses himself in entangling their nets and oversetting their canoes.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
He was not good enough a swimmer to try any tricks such as oversetting the canoe, not when Thorvald was an expert who could easily finish off a fumbling opponent.
From Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
