Usually means: Translating text excessively or improperly.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word oversetting:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. oversetting: Merriam-Webster
  2. oversetting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oversetting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. oversetting: Wordnik
  5. oversetting: Wiktionary
  6. Oversetting, oversetting: Dictionary.com
  7. Oversetting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Oversetting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. oversetting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. oversetting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oversetting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See overset as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overset)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
verb:  To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
verb:  (rare) To translate (a text).
verb:  (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
verb:  (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To cover (the surface of something) with objects.
verb:  To oppress or overwhelm (someone, their thoughts, etc.); to beset; also, to overpower or overthrow (someone, an army, a people, etc.) by force; to defeat, to overwhelm.
verb:  To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).
verb:  To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload.
verb:  (rare) To come to rest over (something); to settle.
verb:  (figurative, rare) To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax.
verb:  (uncertain) To recover (money) given in an exchange.
verb:  (uncertain, nautical) To coil or stow away (a cable, a rope, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (archaic) To turn, or to be turned, over; to capsize; to, or to be, upset.
verb:  (obsolete) Of a person or thing (such as an organization or plan): to become unbalanced or thrown into confusion; to be put into disarray.
adjective:  Having been overset (verb sense).
adjective:  Capsized, overturned, upset.
adjective:  (journalism, printing) Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.
noun:  (journalism, printing, uncountable) Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (obsolete, countable)
noun:  An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.
noun:  (rare) An excess, a surplus.
▸ Also see overset


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