OVERSPREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overspread mean? 

• OVERSPREAD (verb)
  The verb OVERSPREAD has 1 sense:

1. spread across or over

  Familiarity information: OVERSPREAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSPREAD (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

overspread; spread

Context example:

A big oil spot spread across the water

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 

He dropped his voice as he said these words, and the gravity I so well remembered overspread his face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but—" She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Tell me honestly"—a deeper glow overspreading his cheeks—"do you think me most a knave or a fool?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We had taken and furnished a little house in Brooklyn, and our whole future seemed assured when that black cloud appeared which was soon to overspread our sky.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At one time the moon, which had before been clear, was suddenly overspread by a thick cloud, and I took advantage of the moment of darkness and cast my basket into the sea; I listened to the gurgling sound as it sank and then sailed away from the spot.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A blush overspread Anne's cheeks.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then he paused, and a troubled look overspread his face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)