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Definition of Overspread
1. Verb. Spread across or over. "A big oil spot spread across the water"
Generic synonyms: Continue, Cover, Extend
Specialized synonyms: Transgress
Derivative terms: Spread, Spread, Spread, Spreading
Definition of Overspread
1. v. t. To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth.
2. v. i. To be spread or scattered over.
Definition of Overspread
1. Verb. (transitive) To spread over or across (something); to permeate, overrun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overspread
1. [v -SPREAD, -SPREADING, -SPREADS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overspread
Literary usage of Overspread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"Still higher on the valley sides there may lie other platforms, similarly planed
and overspread. This process of cutting and levelling has been termed ..."
2. Gitanjali: Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats (1916)
"... The great pageant of thee and me has overspread the sky. With the tune of thee
and me all the air is vibrant, and all ages pass with the hiding and ..."
3. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"The same ineffable resignation, the same unnatural quietude, which had sunk down
over her faculties since she had entered the room, overspread them still. ..."
4. English Reader by Lindley Murray (1840)
"While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, the sky was overspread with clouds;
the day vanished from before him ; and a sudden tempest gathered round his ..."
5. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect by Hezekiah Niles (1822)
"... that overspread this paltry continent of America, and us, its wretched inhabitants.
Dark and dreary indeed, was the prospect before us, till, ..."
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