overget

To get more than expected or due.

Verb

  1. To get more than expected or due.
    • Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money. - 1885, Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations:
  2. To attain, reach; pass, overtake; come up with; get hold of, catch.
  3. To get beyond; get over; recover from.

Origin

From Middle English overgeten; equivalent to over- + get. Cognate with Scots overget (“to overtake”). Compare Old English oferġietan (“to forget, disregard, neglect”).

Forms

overgets overgetting overgot overgat overgotten

Antonyms

underget