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to make too great demands upon, put to too severe a trial, press too hard:--Wæs sió hond tó strong seó (MS. se) ðe méca gehwane swenge ofersóhte the hand was too strong, which with its stroke put every blade to too severe a trial, i. e. Beowulf struck so hard that any sword would be broken, Beo. Th. 3655 ; B. 2686. [O. H. Ger. ubar-suochian, Grff. vi. 84.] ofer-secan