| oversea | (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
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| (adverb) beyond or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
| overseas | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: abroad |
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| (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| (adverb) beyond or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| (adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: abroad |
| oversee | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, superintend, supervise |
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| overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversew | (verb) sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both | - |
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| oversewn | (adjective) sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together) | Synonyms: overhand |
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| oversexed | (adjective) having excessive sexual desire or appeal | Synonyms: highly-sexed |
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| overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| overshoe | (noun) footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold | - |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| (verb) aim too high | - |
| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| overshot | (adjective) having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | - |
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| overside | (adverb) over the side of a boat | - |
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| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| oversize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversized |
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| oversized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversize |
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| overskirt | (noun) an outer skirt worn over another skirt | - |
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| oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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| overspecialize | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialise |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| overstated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overdone |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| oversteer | (noun) when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| overstep | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, pass, top, transcend |
| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| overstrain | (noun) too much strain | - |
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| (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| overstuffed | (adjective) upholstered thickly and deeply | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| oversupply | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, surfeit |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| overt | (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: open |
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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| overtax | (verb) tax excessively | - |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
| overtime | (noun) playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie | Synonyms: extra time |
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| (noun) work done in addition to regular working hours | - |
| (adverb) beyond the regular time | - |
| overtire | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overweary |
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| overtly | (adverb) in an overt manner | - |
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| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| overtone | (noun) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency | Synonyms: partial, partial tone |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality | - |
| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| overture | (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler |
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| (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio | - |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: preliminary, prelude |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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| overuse | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
| overutilisation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilization |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| overvaluation | (noun) too high a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overestimation |
| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| overview | (noun) a general summary of a subject | - |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| overwhelming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: consuming |
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| (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overpowering |
| overwhelmingly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: irresistibly, overpoweringly |
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| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| (verb) use too much | - |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: exploit |
| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| overwrite | (verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data | - |
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| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| overzeal | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzealousness |
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| overzealous | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, rabid |
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| overzealousness | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzeal |
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