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overgo

verb
/əʊvəˈɡəʊ/UK/ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/UK

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.

  1. inherited from 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”
  2. inherited from overgon

Definitions

  1. To cross, go over (a barrier etc.)

    To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.

  2. To pass (a figurative barrier)

    To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.

    • 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!

  3. To pass by, pass away

    To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.

    • He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To spread across (something)

      To spread across (something); to overrun.

    2. To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of

      To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.

      • 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.

    3. To go beyond

      To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.

      • 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.

    4. To get the better of

      To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.

      • Both barking Scilla, and the ſounding Rocks, / The Cyclops ſhelues, and grim Ceranias ſeat, / Have you ore gone, and yet remaine aliue?

    5. To overtake, go faster than.

      • If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.

    6. To cover.

      • All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least.

    7. A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.

      • Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
      • Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.

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Derived

overgoer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overgo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA