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Overtaxes
- verb - tax excessively; "Don't overtax my constituents!"
Overtimes
- noun - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
- work done in addition to regular working hours
Overtones
- noun - (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair"
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
Overtures
- noun - a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"
- orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
Overturns
- noun - an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"
- rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
- the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
- turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
Overviews
- noun - a general summary of a subject; "the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"
Overworks
- noun - the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
- use too much; "This play has been overworked"
- work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students"
Oviferous
- - Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.
Ovigerous
- - Bearing eggs; oviferous.