Definitions from Wiktionary (overset)

▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
▸ verb:  (figurative)
▸ verb:  To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
▸ verb:  To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
▸ verb:  (rare) To translate (a text).
▸ verb:  (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
▸ verb:  (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
▸ verb:  (obsolete)
▸ verb:  To cover (the surface of something) with objects.
▸ verb:  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.
▸ verb:  To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).
▸ verb:  To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload.
▸ verb:  (rare) To come to rest over (something); to settle.
▸ verb:  (figurative, rare) To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax.
▸ verb:  (uncertain) To recover (money) given in an exchange.
▸ verb:  (uncertain, nautical) To coil or stow away (a cable, a rope, etc.).
▸ verb:  (intransitive)
▸ verb:  (archaic) To turn, or to be turned, over; to capsize; to, or to be, upset.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) Of a person or thing (such as an organization or plan): to become unbalanced or thrown into confusion; to be put into disarray.
▸ adjective:  Having been overset (verb sense).
▸ adjective:  Capsized, overturned, upset.
▸ adjective:  (journalism, printing) Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.
▸ noun:  (journalism, printing, uncountable) Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, countable)
▸ noun:  An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.
▸ noun:  (rare) An excess, a surplus.



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