overspread
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /əʊvəˈspɹɛd/
overspread (overspreads, present participle overspreading; past and past participle overspread)
- (transitive) To spread over or across (something); cover over; be scattered over; permeate, overrun.
- Synonyms: bespread
- those nations of the North which overspread the world
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- Lady Bellaston fixed her eyes on Sophia whilst she spoke these words. To which that poor young lady, having her face overspread with blushes and confusion, answered, in a stammering voice […]
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
- So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
- They cannot see the sun on high:
- The wind hath blown a gale all day;
- At evening it hath died away.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 289:
- Deliberately, and with a peculiar quivering smile, that seemed to overspread her whole body, she put her mouth on his.
- (intransitive) To be spread or scattered about.
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