overcovering

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