Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: O'VER-TURN – O-VER-WHELM'ED
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O'VER-TURN, n.
State of being overturned or subverted; overthrow.
O-VER-TURN', v.t.
- To overset; to turn or throw from a basis or foundation; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
- To subvert; to ruin; to destroy. Locke. Atterbury.
- 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O-VER-WEEN', v.i. [ween is obsolete except in composition.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.]
- To think too highly; to think arrogantly or conceitedly.
- To reach beyond the truth in thought; to think too favorably. Shak. Milton.
O-VER-WEEN'ING, ppr.
- Thinking too highly or conceitedly.
- 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.
- To overspread or crush beneath something violent and weighty, that covers or encompasses the whole; as, to overwhelm with waves.
- To immerse and bear down; in a figurative sense; as, to be overwhelmed with cares, afflictions or business.
- To overlook gloomily. Shak.
- To put over. [Not used.]
O-VER-WHELM'ED, pp.
Crushed with weight or numbers.