overmatching

Verb

overmatch (third-person singular simple present overmatches, present participle overmatching, simple past and past participle overmatched)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To match more than intended.
   • The regular expression overmatched, capturing the entire paragraph instead of the specific sentence.
2. To be more than equal to or a match for, to surpass; hence, to conquer, vanquish.
   • And wel his merits ſhew him to be made
     His Fortunes maiſter, and the king of men.
     That could perſwade at ſuch a ſodaine pinch,
     With reaſons of his valour and his life,
     A thouſand ſworne and ouer-matching foes:c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
3. (transitive) To marry (someone) to a superior.
   • If a yeoman have one sole daughter, he must overmatch her, above her birth and calling, to a gentleman forsooth, because of her great portion […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

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