Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overgone.
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- verb Simple past of
overgo .
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Examples
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There is nothing here worse, or more necessarily fatal, than many things in Tennyson's 1830 and 1832 collections: he overwent those, so might Mr Arnold have overgone these.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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Civil greetings passed as they came up, and Falconer overwent the demands of mere courtesy so far as to express himself upon the coolness and sweetness of the morning.
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