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Webster 1913 Edition

Overcover

Oˊver-cov′er

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Verb.
T.
To cover up.
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Webster 1828 Edition

Overcover

OVERCOV'ER

,
Verb.
T.
To cover completely.

Definition 2024

overcover

overcover

English

Verb

overcover ‎(third-person singular simple present overcovers, present participle overcovering, simple past and past participle overcovered)

  1. (transitive) To cover over.
    The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
  2. (transitive) To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
    • 2009 May 3, Nicholas Kristof, “Bright Continent”, in New York Times:
      You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much.

Etymology

over- +‎ cover

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