 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overspread
verb: spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the
water" [syn: {spread}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overspread \O'ver*spread"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Overspread}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Overspreading}.] [AS. oferspr[=ae]dan.]
To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the
earth. --Chaucer.
Those nations of the North
Which overspread the world. --Drayton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overspread \O'ver*spread"\, verb (used without an object)
To be spread or scattered over.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "overspread":
apply to, beset, bespread, bestrew, blanket, block, broadcast,
canopy, cap, circumfuse, cloak, clothe, cloud, cope, cover,
cover up, cowl, crawl with, creep with, crown, curtain, deal out,
diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate,
distribute, diverge, eclipse, extend throughout, fan out, fill,
film, flood, grow over, honeycomb, hood, imbue, infest, invade,
issue, know no bounds, lay on, lay over, leave no void, leaven,
luxuriate, mantle, mask, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, occupy,
overabound, overbrim, overcast, overflow, overgrow, overgrown,
overlay, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspill, overswarm,
penetrate, permeate, pervade, plague, propagate, publish,
pullulate, put on, radiate, ravage, retail, run riot, run through,
scatter, screen, scum, shield, sow, sow broadcast, spill over,
splay, spread, spread out, spread over, strew, suffuse,
superabound, superimpose, superpose, swarm, swarm over, swarm with,
teem, teem over, teem with, transfuse, utter, veil
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