Overhie

//əʊvəˈhʌɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To overtake; to catch up with. Scotland

    "I disencumbered myself by main force, and fled, but he overhied me, knocked me down, and threatened, with dreadful oaths, to throw me from the cliff."

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"I disencumbered myself by main force, and fled, but he overhied me, knocked me down, and threatened, with dreadful oaths, to throw me from the cliff."

Etymology

From over- + hie.

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catch up

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