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overmarch, v.|-ˈmɑːtʃ|
[over- 26, 13.]
1. trans. To march (soldiers, etc.) too far or too long; to overpower or exhaust with marching.
1660Phillips in Baker's Chron. (1696) 532 The Prince his Horse were so over-marcht, and the Foot so beaten off their Legs by long Marches. 1823Southey Hist. Penins. War I. 707 His men had been over-marched.
2. To march over or beyond, pass over in marching.
1807J. Barlow Columb. iii. 137 They journey'd forth, o'ermarching far the mound That flank'd the kingdom on its Andean bound. |