overgo

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overgon, from Old English ofergān (“to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross, transgress, overstep, overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer, come upon, overtake, seize, attack, pass off, pass away, end, overreach”), equivalent to over- +‎ go. Cognate with Dutch overgaan, German übergehen, Swedish övergå.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

overgo (third-person singular simple present overgoes, present participle overgoing, simple past overwent, past participle overgone)

(archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount. [from 8th c.]
(obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress. [8th–19th c.]
- 1882, John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night, vol 3:
  How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo!
(intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed. [from 9th c.]
- 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
  He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]
To spread across (something); to overrun. [from 10th c.]
To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through. [from 13th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]
- 1625, Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge:
  The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.
To go beyond; to exceed, surpass. [from 13th c.]
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
- 1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177:
  He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.
To get the better of; to overcome, overpower. [from 13th c.]
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], recto:
  Both barking Scilla, and the ſounding Rocks, / The Cyclops ſhelues, and grim Ceranias ſeat, / Have you ore gone, and yet remaine aliue?
(obsolete) To overtake, go faster than. [15th–17th c.]
- [1611?], Homer, “Book VI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
  If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.
  The spelling has been modernized.
(obsolete) To cover.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
  All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least.
  The spelling has been modernized.

Synonyms

(cross a barrier): overcome, superate
(pass a figurative barrier): outstep, transgress; see also Thesaurus:transcend
(pass by): forthglide, go by; see also Thesaurus:pass by
(spread across): bespread, infest, overspread
(go over): cross, pass over
(go beyond): excel, outstrip; see also Thesaurus:exceed
(get the better of): better, defeat, overwhelm
(overtake): forhale, lap, overhaul
(cover):

Derived terms

overgoer

Etymology 2

Blend of overlapping +‎ oligonucleotide.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

overgo (plural overgoes)

(genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
- 1999, Birren & Green, Genome Analysis, page 207:
  Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
- 2004, Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, page 318:
  Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.

Anagrams

go over, groove