overgo

Verb

overgo (third-person singular simple present overgoes, present participle overgoing, simple past overwent, past participle overgone)

1. (archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.

   Synonyms:

   overcome, superate

2. (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.
   • How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo!1882, John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night, vol 3

   Synonyms:

   outstep

3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.
   • He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   go by

4. To spread across (something); to overrun.

   Synonyms:

   bespread, infest, overspread

5. To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.
   • forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.1625, Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge
6. To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.
   • O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
   • He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177

   Synonyms:

   excel

7. To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
   • Both barking Scilla, and the ſounding Rocks, / The Cyclops ſhelues, and grim Ceranias ſeat, / Have you ore gone, and yet remaine aliue?1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], recto

   Synonyms:

   better, defeat, overwhelm

8. (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than.
   • If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.[1611?], Homer, “Book VI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...

   Synonyms:

   forhale, lap, overhaul

9. (obsolete) To cover.
   • All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

Noun

UK/ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/

overgo (plural overgoes)

1. A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
   • Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].1999, Birren & Green, Genome Analysis, page 207
   • Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.2004, Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, page 318