† overchangev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To change (a thing) into something else; to transmute or transform (a thing). Also occasionally intransitive: to undergo change or transformation.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]
wendOE
forshapeOE
workOE
awendOE
makec1175
turna1200
forwenda1325
change1340
shape1362
transmewc1374
transposec1380
puta1382
convertc1384
exchangea1400
remue?a1400
makea1425
reduce?a1425
removec1425
resolvea1450
transvertc1450
overchangec1480
mew1512
transmutea1513
wring1524
reduct1548
transform1556
innovate1561
metamorphose1576
transume1579
metamorphize1587
transmove1590
transchangea1599
transfashion1601
deflect1613
fordo1624
entail1628
transmutate1632
distila1637
to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637
transqualify1652
unconvert1654
simulate1658
spend1668
transverse1687
hocus-pocus1774
mutate1796
fancy1801
to change around1871
metamorphosize1888
catalyse1944
morph1996
c1480 (a1400) St. George 772 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 198 Bot gyf sume cristine man had þe ourchangit þis [= thus] for to lef me.
1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore sig. D2 v It will so ouerchange her heart with griefe, That like a Cannon, when her sighes goe off, She in her duty either will recoyle, Or breake in pieces and so dye.
1678 J. Leanerd Rambling Justice Prol. p. ii Then if you chance to have the least Desire, And come though overchang'd with Love and Fire, Perhaps wee'l take your Guinnies and Retire.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 292 God help the man whose heart over changes with the world, as an old mansion when it becomes an inn!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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