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Definition:reached, as in the past tense of reachin Shakespeare's Hamlet: combined with the prefix "over" over-reached , viz. overtook; passed
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And stille he stant, vnder the shot wyndowe
Vn to his brest it raughte, it was so lowe
And ofte he cogheth, with a semy sown
What do ye hony comb, swete Aliſoun
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. p. 108
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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Rosencrantz: Madam, it so fell out, that certain players We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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