Overtalk intransitive verb To talk to excess. Milton.

Overtask transitive verb To task too heavily.

Overtax transitive verb To tax or to task too heavily.

Overtedious adjective Too tedious.

Overtempt transitive verb To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.

Overthrow transitive verb [ imperfect Overthrew ; past participle Overthrown ; present participle & verbal noun Overthrowing .]

1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

His wife overthrew the table.

Jer. Taylor.

2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.

When the walls of Thebes he overthrew .

Dryden.

[ Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.

Shak.

Syn. -- To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.

Overthrow noun
1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.

Your sudden overthrow much rueth me.

Spenser.

2. (a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head. (b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.

Overthwart (ō"vẽr*thwart") adjective
1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. " Overthwart humor." Clarendon.

Overthwart adverb Across; crosswise; transversely. "Y'clenched overthwart and endelong." Chaucer.

Overthwart preposition Across; from alde to side of. "Huge trees overthwart one another." Milton.

Overthwart noun That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [ Obsolete] Surrey.

Overthwart transitive verb To cross; to oppose. [ Obsolete]

Overthwartly adverb In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely. [ Obsolete] Peacham.

Overthwartness noun The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [ Obsolete] Lord Herbert.

Overtilt transitive verb To tilt over; to overturn.

Overtime noun Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

Overtire transitive verb To tire to excess; to exhaust.

Overtitle transitive verb To give too high a title to.

Overtly adverb Publicly; openly.

Overtoil transitive verb To overwork.

Overtone noun [ A translation of German oberton . See Over , Tone .] (Mus.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic , and Tone . Tyndall.

Overtop transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overtopped ; present participle & verbal noun Overtopping .]
1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. "To ... 'ertop old Pelion." Shak.

2. To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.

If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order.

Milton.

3. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. Becon.

Overtower transitive verb To tower over or above.

Overtower intransitive verb To soar too high. [ R.] Fuller.

Overtrade intransitive verb To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Overtrading noun The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

Overtread transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon oferiredan .] To tread over or upon.

Overtrip transitive verb To trip over nimbly.

Overtroubled adjective Excessively troubled.

Overtrow intransitive verb To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much. [ Obsolete] Wyclif ...

Overtrust noun Excessive confidence.

Overtrust transitive verb & i. To trust too much. Bp. Hall.

Overture [ Old French overture , French ouverture , from Old French ovrir , French ouvrir . See Overt .]
1. An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [ Obsolete] Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture ." Chapman.

2. Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [ Obsolete]

It was he
That made the overture of thy treasons to us.

Shak.

3. A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection. "The great overture of the gospel." Barrow.

4. (Mus.) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture .

Overture transitive verb To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

Overturn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overturned ; present participle & verbal noun Overturning .]
1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton.

Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish .

Overturn noun The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

Overturnable adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

Overturner noun One who overturns. South.

Overvail transitive verb See Overveil .

Overvaluation noun Excessive valuation; overestimate.

Overvalue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Overvalued ; present participle & verbal noun Overvaluing .]
1. To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday.

2. To exceed in value. [ R.] H. Brooke.

Overveil transitive verb To veil or cover. Shak.

Overview noun [ Confer Survey .] An inspection or overlooking. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Overvote transitive verb To outvote; to outnumber in votes given. [ R.] Eikon Basilike.

Overwalk transitive verb To walk over or upon.

Overwar transitive verb To defeat. [ Obsolete] Warner.

Overwary adjective Too wary; too cautious.

Overwash transitive verb To overflow. Holinshed.