Overset vs Revoke - What's the difference?

Overset is a related term of revoke.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between overset and revoke

is that overset is (obsolete) to overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat while revoke is (obsolete) to call back to mind; to recollect.

In lang=en terms the difference between overset and revoke

is that overset is to translate while revoke is to fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

As verbs the difference between overset and revoke

is that overset is (obsolete) to set over (something); to cover while revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

As a noun revoke is

the act of revoking in a game of cards.

overset

English

Verb

(obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.

To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

(Mortimer)

(obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.

To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.

To knock over, capsize, overturn.

* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.104:

A reef between them also now began / To show its boiling surf and bounding spray, / But finding no place for their landing better, / They ran the boat for shore,—and overset her.

To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.

* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy

Thus has the Tailor-art, so to speak, overset itself, like most other things; changed its centre-of-gravity; whirled suddenly over from zenith to nadir.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 152:

*:‘So this is the creature who oversets the household and suborns servants and clergymen,’ d'Anton said.

(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.

To translate.

*1879 , The Saturday magazine - Volume 1 - Page 87:

Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the anthentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.

*1910 , Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Henry Ward Beecher, The Independent - Volume 69 - Page 1220 :

They should be overset into English so as to reach a wider public here, for even his elementary descriptions of American universities, would not be so superfluous to any of us as we think, [...]

*2006 , John David Pizer, The idea of world literature :

The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset —as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.

To overfill.

(Howell)

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revoke

English

Verb

To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing

Your driver's license will be revoked .

To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

(obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.

* Spenser

The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.

(obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

* Spenser

[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .

(obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.

(Spenser)

(obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.

* South

A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.