Definition of Overdye

1. v. t. To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).

Definition of Overdye

1. Verb. (transitive) To dye (something already coloured) with another colour. ¹

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Definition of Overdye

1. to dye with too much color [v -DYED, -DYEING, -DYES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdye

overdrowned
overdrowning
overdrowns
overdrunk
overdry
overdrying
overdub
overdubbed
overdubber
overdubbers
overdubbing
overdubs
overdue
overdust
overdusts
overdye (current term)
overdyed
overdyeing
overdyer
overdyers
overdyes
overeager
overeagerly
overeagerness
overeagernesses
overearnest
overeasy
overeat
overeaten
overeater

Literary usage of Overdye

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Opinion and Popular Government by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1913)
"... the borrower will be notified of the need for an earlier return. (Non-receipt of overdue notices does not exempt the borrower from overdye finest ..."

2. Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic by Harold Bayley (1920)
"... in a few words of writing, I shall look upon myself obliged both in affection and reason, to endeavour to give them full satisfaction. HB overdye ..."

3. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1846)
"... to 1 : 6'08 in the highest, the overdye being 1 : 6'59. In the gelding the proportion varies from 1 : 6-44 in the lowest, (excluding one case in which ..."

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