What is another word for oversets?

Pronunciation: [ˌə͡ʊvəsˈɛts] (IPA)

The word "oversets" is quite uncommon in everyday language, but it means to overturn or capsize something. There are many synonyms for "oversets" that you can use in your writing. Some of the most common ones include "upset," "flip," "turn over," "capsize," "overturn," "topple," "tumble," "tip over," "knock over," "push over," "upend," "invert," "reversal," and "overthrow." These words are all similar in meaning and can be interchanged depending on the context. When writing, it's important to use synonyms to avoid repetition and keep your writing interesting and engaging, and "oversets" has a plethora of synonyms to choose from.

What are the hypernyms for Oversets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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Usage examples for Oversets

In descending, it is still worse; because there is more hurry, more impatience, on arriving at the end of a journey; and an injudicious descent does not visit its effects upon one but upon both travelers; for unless the person who descends be extremely quick in his motions, his seat flies up before he has quite left it, and oversets him, and the opposite weight, of course, goes plump to the ground,-with as fatal effects as cutting the hammock-strings of a middy's berth."
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
"Yes," I answered, "unless the balsa oversets, when I shall find mail hard to swim in."
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
It has been oftentimes remarked that few tragedies which the brain of the novelist has depicted have surpassed in their unnatural and horrible details those enacted in real life, for When headstrong passion gets the reins of reason, The force of Nature, like too strong a gale, For want of ballast, oversets the vessel.
"Strange Pages from Family Papers"
T. F. Thiselton Dyer

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