over-Atlas

verb

To overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.

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Meanings

verbover-Atlas (third-person singular simple present over-Atlases, present participle over-Atlasing, simple past and past participle over-Atlased)

present singular third person over-Atlases · participle present over-Atlasing · participle past over-Atlased · past over-Atlased

  1. obsoleterareTo overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.
    1 more example

    O, favour thy glory though I have displeased thee with folly. I will not be so unweaponed jeopardous to overthrow both thy cause and my credit at once by over-Atlasing mine invention. That which I undertake shall be only to throw one light dart at their faces from afar, and exhort all able pens to arm themselves against thine atheistical maledictors.

    1593, Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem

Origin

From over- + Atlas.

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APA

over-Atlas. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-Atlas

MLA

“over-Atlas.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-Atlas. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “over-Atlas,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-Atlas.

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