Overset

//ˌəʊvəˈsɛt//

Synonyms for "overset" (81 found)

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6 translations across 1 languages.

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Finnish

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  • yli menevä adj (of copy or type: set in excess of a given space)
  • ylijuokseva adj (of copy or type: set in excess of a given space)
  • yli menevä teksti noun (copy or type set in excess of a given space; an instance of this)
  • ylijuokseva teksti noun (copy or type set in excess of a given space; an instance of this)

Sample sentences

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Then Chloe raised the pipe to her lips and blew with all her strength, and the cows hearing the pipe and recognising the notes began to low and all at once leaped into the sea. As they all plunged from the same side the vessel was overset, the waves closed over it and it sank.

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For ſtill thy eyes, vvhich I may call the ſea, / Do ebbe and flovve vvith teares, the Barke thy body is: / Sayling in this ſalt floud, the vvindes thy ſighes, / Who raging vvith thy teares and they vvith them, / VVithout a ſudden calme vvill ouerſet / Thy tempeſt toſſed body.

Source: wiktionary

A great ſhip overſet, or vvithout faile / Hulling, might (vvhen this vvas a vvhelp) be like this vvhale.

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Up, and with W. Hewer by hackney coach to White Hall, where the King and Duke of York is gone by three in the morning, and had the misfortune to be overset with the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth, and the Prince, at the King's Gate in Holborne; and the King all dirty, but no hurt.

Source: wiktionary

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