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What does overstand mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word overstand? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (rare) to stand or insist too much or too long; overstay
  2. (transitive) to stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
  3. (yachting, boat racing): to sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline
  4. (forestry, of a coppice): To be neglected and left uncut for too long.
Verb
  1. (Rastafarianism, US black subculture): to have complete or intuititive comprehension of; to understand fully
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