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overset, past şi part. trec. overset verb A. tranzitiv

1. a răsturna; a răsturna ordinea (cu gen.).

2. a zădărnici.

overset, past şi part. trec. overset verb B. intranzitiv

a se răsturna.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I am also the soldier that overset your stall.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Why, you do not suppose a man is overset by a bottle?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all lost.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

“Martha has overset her, altogether.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They were still not safe; for he was such a great beast that in his fall he overset the boat, and they had to swim in the open sea upon a few planks.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Perhaps many travellers have not been under greater difficulties and distress than I was at this juncture, expecting every moment to see my box dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first violent blast, or rising wave.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The maid happened to be just then milking the cow; and hearing someone speak, but seeing nobody, and yet being quite sure it was the same voice that she had heard in the night, she was so frightened that she fell off her stool, and overset the milk-pail.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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