Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare to stand or insist too much or too long;
overstay - verb transitive to stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
- verb yachting : to sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline
- verb : to have complete or intutitive
comprehension , togrok
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maybe, it's those things and more but no matter the reason why I have personally chosen not to catch the bus downtown everyday for a superficial show of solidarity, overstand that I am not a minority in my opinion.
Tawana Petty: Why a Single, Struggling, Partially Employed, Barely Mobile, Black Mother of a Teenage Son Has Yet to "Occupy" Tawana Petty 2011
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Maybe, it's those things and more but no matter the reason why I have personally chosen not to catch the bus downtown everyday for a superficial show of solidarity, overstand that I am not a minority in my opinion.
Tawana Petty: Why a Single, Struggling, Partially Employed, Barely Mobile, Black Mother of a Teenage Son Has Yet to "Occupy" Tawana Petty 2011
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Lion of Judah on each one of dem, overstand? he said, pointing toward his couch and chairs.
Midnight Sister Souljah 2008
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I do not drink, today, and never will again, but I overstand why Black males in America do what we do.
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Sometimes, however, they overstand their market, and suffer by refusing the first offers made.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Be ruled then, and accept of my brother's invitation, and overstand not the time of mercy, but agree with thine adversary quickly.
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Non Phixion - They Got Lyrics: (Chorus 2x) Know your enemy overstand y'all overstand y'all know your enemy (Verse1) They got extraterrestrials living in
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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D-nice, i've been keeping up with the comments as well as the murders and thought that you might overstand the point iwas making. your absolutely right junkies in my younger years were alot ......
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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Non Phixion - They Got Lyrics: (Chorus 2x) Know your enemy overstand y'all overstand y'all know your enemy (Verse1) They got extraterrestrials living in Arizona
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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But why does it take a Rican cat to put a real looking sista (overstand me) in his video just a thought
unknown title 2009
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