OVERSEE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

2.
v.

To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.

3.
v.

To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.] The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.

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