Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O'VER-TURN, n.

State of being overturned or subverted; overthrow.

O-VER-TURN', v.t.

1. To overset; to turn or throw from a basis or foundation; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
2. To subvert; to ruin; to destroy. Locke. Atterbury.
3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton.

O-VER-TURN'A-BLE, a.

That may be overturned. [Not much used.]

O-VER-TURN'ED, pp.

Overset; overthrown.

O-VER-TURN'ER, n.

One that overturns or subverts. Swift.

O-VER-TURN'ING, n.

An oversetting; subversion; change; revolution.

O-VER-TURN'ING, ppr.

Oversetting; overthrowing; subverting.

O-VER-VAIL', or O-VER-VEIL', v.t.

To cover; to spread over. Shak.

O-VER-VAL'UE, v.t.

To rate at too high a price. Hooker.

O-VER-VAL'U-ED, pp.

Placed too high a value on.

O-VER-VAL'U-ING, ppr.

Valuing too highly.

O-VER-VOTE', v.t.

To outvote; to outnumber in votes given. K. Charles.

O-VER-WATCH', v.t.

To watch to excess; to subdue by long want of rest. Dryden.

O-VER-WATCH'ED, a.

Tired by too much watching. Sidney.

O-VER-WEAK', a.

Too weak; too feeble. Ralegh.

O-VER-WEA'RY, v.t.

To subdue with fatigue. Dryden.

O-VER-WEATH'ER, v.t. [overweth'er. See Weather.]

To bruise or batter by violence of weather.

O-VER-WEEN', v.i. [ween is obsolete except in composition. See the word.]

1. To think too highly; to think arrogantly or conceitedly.
2. To reach beyond the truth in thought; to think too favorably. Shak. Milton.

O-VER-WEEN'ING, ppr.

1. Thinking too highly or conceitedly.
2. adj. That thinks too highly, particularly of one's self; conceited; vain; as, overweening pride; an overweening brain. Locke.

O-VER-WEEN'ING-LY, adv.

With too much vanity or conceit.

O-VER-WEIGH', v.t.

To exceed in weight; to cause to preponderate; to outweigh; to overbalance. Hooker.

O-VER-WEIGHT', n.

Greater weight; preponderance. Bacon.

O'VER-WHELM', n.

The act of overwhelming. Young.

O-VER-WHELM', v.t.

1. To overspread or crush beneath something violent and weighty, that covers or encompasses the whole; as, to overwhelm with waves.
2. To immerse and bear down; in a figurative sense; as, to be overwhelmed with cares, afflictions or business.
3. To overlook gloomily. Shak.
4. To put over. [Not used.]

O-VER-WHELM'ED, pp.

Crushed with weight or numbers.