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Definition of Overgo
1. v. t. To travel over.
Definition of Overgo
1. Verb. (rare) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount. (defdate from 8th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress. (defdate 8th-19th c.) ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive now UK dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed. (defdate from 9th c.) ¹
4. Verb. To spread across (something); to overrun. (defdate from 10th c.) ¹
5. Verb. To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through. (defdate from 13th c.) ¹
6. Verb. To go beyond; to exceed, surpass. (defdate from 13th c.) ¹
7. Verb. To get the better of; to overcome, overpower. (defdate from 13th c.) ¹
8. Verb. (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than. (defdate 15th-17th c.) ¹
9. Noun. (genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overgo
1. to exceed [v OVERWENT, OVERGONE, OVERGOING, OVERGOES] - See also: exceed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgo
Literary usage of Overgo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"To overgo', t'.n To surpass; to excel. Sidney, To cover. ... overgo'NK. part.a.
Injured; ruined. ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... to emulate," but "hoped to overgo." Of his "Orlando Furioso" Ariosto had,
after eleven years of the most assiduous and careful labour, in the year 1515, ..."
3. A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament by Edward Robinson (1836)
"Trop, to overgo, to overpass, sc. certain limits, iq to transgress, с. пес.
то l'aov ... sol. to overgo, to go too far, ie to go beyond right, 1 Thess. ..."
4. A Greek and English lexicon of the New Testament by Edward Robinson (1850)
"Trop, to overgo, to overpass certain limits, to transgress, c. ace. то ïo-ov кш то
... In NT trop, and absol. to overgo, to go too far, to transgress, ..."
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