Usually means: Position one symbol above another.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word overset:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. overset: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overset: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overset: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overset: Wordnik
  6. overset: Wiktionary
  7. overset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. overset: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Overset, overset: Dictionary.com
  10. Overset: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. overset: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Overset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. overset: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. overset: Free Dictionary
  15. overset: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. overset: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overset)

verb:  (obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset; to capsize.
verb:  (transitive) To knock over, capsize, overturn.
verb:  (obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.
verb:  (transitive) To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.
verb:  (archaic) To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.
verb:  (printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To translate.
verb:  To overfill.

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