overgoing

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
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...

   Synonyms:

   excel

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