2. Verb. (third-person singular of overmatch) ¹
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Definition of Overmatches
1. overmatch [v] - See also: overmatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmatches
Literary usage of Overmatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors. With Explanatory by Henry Norman Hudson (1877)
""MATCHES AND overmatches." BUT the gentleman inquires why he was made the object
of such a reply. Why was he singled out? If an attack has been made on the ..."
2. Public Speaking: Principles and Practice by Irvah Lester Winter (1912)
"MATCHES AND overmatches From Webster's reply to Hayne in the United States Senate,
January, 1830, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, publishers BY DANIEL ..."
3. Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (1887)
"Matches and overmatches Webster. 280 i. Maud Muller Whittier. 47 II. Memory Garfield.
115 ii. Memory Wordsworth. 123 in. Michael and His Son Wordsworth. ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1896)
"... and in view of the fact that the minimum protection, occurring when the guns
are in the raised position, overmatches the bulk of attacking weapons, ..."
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