Verb
(third-person singular simple present oversits, present participle oversitting, simple past and past participle oversat)
- to preside over, govern, rule; to control
- to conquer, gain control or owndom of
- to grasp, comprehend; to understand
- (archaic) to neglect, omit; to desist, refrain from, forbear
- (archaic) to overstay, outstay, overlinger
- (slang) to be misunderstood; to misread, misunderstand
- Nobody understands me, they all oversit me.
Origin
From Middle English oversitten (“to gain possession of”), from Old English ofersittan (“to occupy, possess; forbear”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *sitjaną (“to sit”), corresponding to over- + sit.
