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OVERSPREAD
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overspread ... he / she / it overspreads
Past simple: overspread
Past participle: overspread
-ing form: overspreading
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spread across or over
Example:
A big oil spot spread across the water
Synonyms:
overspread; spread
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "overspread" is one way to...):
continue; cover; extend (span an interval of distance, space or time)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overspread"):
transgress (spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A moody smile that had overspread his features cleared off as he said this merrily, and he was his own frank, winning self again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They entered the woods, and bidding adieu to the river for a while, ascended some of the higher grounds; when, in spots where the opening of the trees gave the eye power to wander, were many charming views of the valley, the opposite hills, with the long range of woods overspreading many, and occasionally part of the stream.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An angry flush overspread her features; and she said, in an intolerant manner, grasping the arm-chair tightly with her hands: What compensation can you make to ME for opening such a pit between me and my son?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In no countenance was attentive curiosity so strongly marked as in Miss Bingley's, in spite of the smiles which overspread her face whenever she spoke to one of its objects; for jealousy had not yet made her desperate, and her attentions to Mr. Darcy were by no means over.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
