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overcover

overcover verb: to cover over.

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).
    • 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.2009 May 3, Nicholas Kristof, “Bright Continent”, in New York Times

Forms of overcover

third-person singular presentovercovers
present participleovercovering
past participleovercovered
pastovercovered

Origin of overcover

From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- + cover.

Questions about overcover

What does overcover mean?
Overcover means to cover over.
What part of speech is overcover?
Overcover is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcover?
The past tense of overcover is overcovered.

Words near overcover in the dictionary

  1. overcoupled
  2. overcoupling
  3. overcourageous
  4. overcourteous
  5. overcourtesy
  6. overcover
  7. overcoverage
  8. overcovered
  9. overcovering
  10. overcovers
  11. overcovetous

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