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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overdye
1. to dye with too much color [v -DYED, -DYEING, -DYES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdye
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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