overgo
/əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
Example Sentences
- "How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo!"
- "He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]"
- "forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]"
- "The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted."
- "O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!"
- "He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness."
Etymology
From Middle English overgon, from Old English ofergān (“to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross, transgress, overstep, overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer, come upon, overtake, seize, attack, pass off, pass away, end, overreach”), equivalent to over- + go. Cognate with Dutch overgaan, German übergehen, Swedish övergå.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: overgon, ofergān
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
Usage
- Archaic
- Obsolete
- British usage
- Intransitive verb