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oversetting
Variant of overset
transitive verb overset, oversetting
- to overcome or upset
- to overturn or overthrow
- to set too great an amount of (type or copy), or too much type for (a given space)
intransitive verb
to overturn; tip over
noun
- an overturning
- type matter set and not used
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