overset UK /ˌəʊvəˈsɛt/US /ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/verb 16noun 3adjective 3forms 3 verb16 •To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.A great ship overset, or vvithout faile / Hulling, might (vvhen this vvas a vvhelp) be like this vvhale. — 1631 •(figurative) To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.[H]ad not the old Man run and fetch'd me a Cordial, I believe the sudden Surprize of Joy had overset Nature, and I had dy'd upon the Spot. — 1719 •(figurative) To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.O Lord, O Lord, she's mad, poor Young VVoman, Love has turn'd her senses, her Brain is quite overset. — 1695 •To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space. •(figurative, rare) To translate (a text).Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the authentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider. — 1878 •(Scotland, figurative) To recover from (an illness). •(no longer used) To turn, or to be turned, over; to capsize; to, or to be, upset. •(no longer used) Of a person or thing (such as an organization or plan): to become unbalanced or thrown into confusion; to be put into disarray.But, while kingdoms overset, / Or lapse from hand to hand, / Thy leaf shall never fail, nor yet / Thine acorn in the land. — 1842 •(no longer used) 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.At last being over set vvith multitudes (vvhich hath beene the fortune of the bravest spirits upon earth) they chose to bovv a little, rather than breake. — 1640 •(no longer used) To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).[T]he more they [holy plants] vvere oppressd and overset vvith the vveight of Persecution, the faster, stronger, and streighter they grevv up. — 1640 •(no longer used) To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload. •(figurative, no longer used) To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax. •(no longer used) To cover (the surface of something) with objects.Item, the bishop's great mitre, all oversett with orient pearle and stones, and silver ourgilt, the haill mitre extending to 5 pound 15 ounce weight. — 1559 •(no longer used, rare) To come to rest over (something); to settle. •(no longer used) To recover (money) given in an exchange.[H]e that dealeth in barter must be very circumspect, and the Money giuen in barter cannot be overset. — 1622 •(no longer used) To coil or stow away (a cable, a rope, etc.). noun3 •Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this. •(no longer used, rare) An excess, a surplus. •(no longer used) An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset. adjective3 •Capsized, overturned, upset.A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine. — 1895 •Having been overset (verb sense). •Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space. formsoversetting · oversets · oversetteth