overset

Meanings

1. To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
2. To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
3. To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
4. To translate (a text).
5. To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
6. To recover from (an illness).
7. To cover (the surface of something) with objects.
8. To oppress or overwhelm (someone, their thoughts, etc.); to beset; also, to overpower or overthrow (someone, an army, a people, etc.) by force; to defeat, to overwhelm.
9. To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).
10. To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload.
11. To come to rest over (something); to settle.
12. To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax.

1. Having been overset (verb sense).
2. Capsized, overturned, upset.
3. Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.

1. Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
2. An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.
3. An excess, a surplus.

Etymology

PIE word *upér The verb is derived from Middle English oversetten (“to place or set over, cover; to assail; to defeat, overcome, overpower, overthrow; to defer; to discredit, refute; to disregard, overlook, set aside; to hinder; to oppress; to repulse”), from Old English ofersettan (“to put in a position of authority; to overcome or be overcome; to set over”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to place above, set over; to establish, install”), from *ubarsittjan (“to abstain from, neglect; to occupy, possess; to sit over or upon”), from *ubar- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + *sittjan (“to sit”) (from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessive, excessively’) + set (verb). Doublet of oversit. Verb sense 1.2.3 (“to translate (a text)”) is probably a calque of German übersetzen. The adjective is derived from overset, the past participle form of the verb. The noun is also derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”) * Old High German ubarsezzen (Middle High German übersetzen, modern German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”)) * Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”) * Swedish översätta (“to translate”) * West Frisian oersette (“to translate”)