Overlie
[əʊvə'laɪ] or ['ovɚ'lai]
Definition
(verb.) kill by lying on; 'The sow overlay her piglets'.
(verb.) lie upon; lie on top of; 'the granite overlies the older rocks'.
Typed by Ann--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
Editor: Solomon
Definition
v.t. to lie above or upon: to smother by lying on.
Typed by Juan
Examples
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Overlying or overlapping these Azoic or Arch?ozoic rocks come others, manifestly also very ancient and worn, which do contain traces of life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All too frequently it forms another strange world which just overlies the world of personal acquaintance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Rena