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Overtone
- 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
Overtook
- verb - catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
Overtops
- verb - look down on; "The villa dominates the town"
Overtrow
- - To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much.
Overture
- 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"
Overturn
- 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"
Overused
- verb - make use of too often or too extensively
Overuses
- noun - exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
- make use of too often or too extensively