| 单词 |
overget |
| 释义 |
overget, v.|əʊvəˈgɛt|
[over- 14, 5.]
1. trans. To overtake. Now only dial.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12708 Ȝif þy felawes þe ouer gete, Sey, ‘þe messegers wente here forþ god spede’. c1450Merlin 276 Thei slough and maymed alle that thei myght ouer-gete. 1530Palsgr. 648/2, I made suche dylygence that at the laste I overgate hym. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxix. lxiv, Orlando still doth her pursue so fast That needs he must ov'rget her at the last. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss. s.v., He is but a little before; you will soon over-get him. 1825Brockett, Overget, to overtake.
2. To get over, surmount, recover from the effects of (an illness, shock, etc.). (A midland dial. sense, which has passed into literary use.)
1803Southey Lett. (1856) I. 230 Edith cannot sleep, and till she overgets this, she cannot be better. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. II. 60 She had overgot the temporary indications of illness. 1886Charity Organis. Rev. Feb. 75 The difficulties to be overgot are great.
3. ‘To get the better of; to overreach, to outwit.’
1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.
4. To prevail upon; to take possession of (a person).
1904Tradesman's Price-list (Herbert Morris & Bastert) 11 Similarity of appearance so far overgets a customer as to induce him to pass us. 1928Sunday Dispatch 16 Sept. 2/3 The thought to marry Fanny overgot the man, and he set out to see if it could be done. 1953D. D. C. P. Mould Rock of Truth xi. 193 When I had been a Catholic some time and perhaps begun to grasp some idea of what God was really like, then the fear of hell did overget me. |
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