Sekirov Dictionary

overgo

/əʊvəˈɡəʊ/

verb 9
/ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/ noun 1
forms 4

verb9

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To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.
- forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […] — 1590
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To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.
- O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries! — 1593
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To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
- Both barking Scilla, and the sounding Rocks, / The Cyclops shelues, and grim Ceranias seat, / Have you ore gone, and yet remaine aliue? — 1594
To spread across (something); to overrun.
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(dialect, UK) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.
- He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […] — 1818
(no longer used) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.
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(no longer used) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.
- How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo! — 1882
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(no longer used) To cover.
- All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least. — 1614
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(no longer used) To overtake, go faster than.
- If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat. — 1611

overgo

/ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/

noun1

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A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
- Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...]. — 1999

forms

overwent · overgone · overgoing · overgoes

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