overgo
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Is overgo a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.Synonyms: overcome, superatearchaic
2. (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.Examples: "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!"Synonyms: outstepobsolete
3. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.Examples: "He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]"Synonyms: go byUKdialectalintransitive
4. (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than.Examples: "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."Synonyms: forhale, lap, overhaulobsolete
5. (obsolete) To cover.Examples: "All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.Examples: "Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...]."; "Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time."
Definition source: Wiktionary