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more info overturn, v.
(overturned, overturning, overturns)
freq. cnt. 4
turn from an upright or normal position
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"The big vase overturned"
"The canoe tumped over"

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rule against
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"The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"

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cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
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"The cat knocked over the flower vase"
"the clumsy customer turned over the vase"
"he tumped over his beer"

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change radically
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"E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"

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cancel officially
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"He revoked the ban on smoking"
"lift an embargo"
"vacate a death sentence"

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cause the downfall of; of rulers
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"The Czar was overthrown"
"subvert the ruling class"

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more info overturned, adj.
freq. cnt. 1
having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
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"an overturned car"
"the upset pitcher of milk"
"sat on an upturned bucket"
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more info overuse, n.
(overuses)
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
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more info overuse, v.
(overused, overuses, overusing)
make use of too often or too extensively
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more info overutilisation, n.
(overutilisations)
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
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more info overutilization, n.
(overutilizations)
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
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more info overvaliant, adj.
freq. cnt. 1
having or showing undue valor or boldness
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"a foolish overvaliant act"
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more info overvaluation, n.
(overvaluations)
too high a value or price assigned to something
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an appraisal that is too high
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more info overvalue, v.
(overvalued, overvalues, overvaluing)
assign too high a value to
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"You are overestimating the value of your old car"

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more info overview, n.
(overviews)
a general summary of a subject
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"the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"
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more info overweary, v.
(overwearied, overwearies, overwearying)
tire excessively
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more info overweening, adj.
presumptuously arrogant
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"had a witty but overweening manner"
"no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet
"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
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unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
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"extravagant praise"
"exuberant compliments"
"overweening ambition"
"overweening greed"
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more info overweight, adj.
freq. cnt. 1
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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more info overweight, n.
(overweights)
the property of excessive fatness
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more info overwhelm, v.
(overwhelmed, overwhelming, overwhelms)
freq. cnt. 2
charge someone with too many tasks
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overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
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overcome by superior force
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The fighter managed to %s his opponent

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cover completely or make imperceptible
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"I was drowned in work"
"The noise drowned out her speech"

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more info overwhelming, adj.
freq. cnt. 8
so strong as to be irresistible
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"an overpowering need for solitude"
"the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"
"an overwhelming majority"
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very strong; urgently felt
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"politics is his consuming passion"
"overwhelming joy"
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more info overwhelmingly, adv.
freq. cnt. 2
incapable of being resisted
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"the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man"
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more info overwinter, v.
(overwintered, overwintering, overwinters)
spend the winter
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sample sentences

"We wintered on the Riviera"
"Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"

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more info overwork, n.
(overworks)
the act of working too much or too long
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"he became ill from overwork"
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more info overwork, v.
(overworked, overworking, overworks)
freq. cnt. 1
use too much
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"This play has been overworked"

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work excessively hard
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"he is exploiting the students"

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more info overworking, n.
(overworkings)
the act of working too much or too long
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"he became ill from overwork"
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more info overwrite, v.
(overwrites, overwriting, overwritten, overwrote)
write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
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"overwrite that file"

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more info overwrought, adj.
deeply agitated especially from emotion
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"distraught with grief"
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more info overzealous, adj.
marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
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"rabid isolationist"
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more info oviduct, n.
(oviducts)
either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus
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more info oviform, adj.
rounded like an egg
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more info ovine, adj.
of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep
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more info oviparous, adj.
egg-laying
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more info ovipositor, n.
(ovipositors)
egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
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more info oviraptorid, n.
(oviraptorids)
advanced carnivorous theropod
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