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overdight

overdight adjective: adorned; decked over; overspread; covered over.

Adjective

overdight (comparative more overdight, superlative most overdight)

  1. (obsolete) Adorned; decked over; overspread; covered over.
    • Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins / Which all with golden wings are overdight1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie

Forms of overdight

comparativemore overdight
superlativemost overdight

Origin of overdight

From over- + dight.

Words that rhyme with overdight

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Questions about overdight

What does overdight mean?
Overdight means adorned; decked over; overspread; covered over.
What part of speech is overdight?
Overdight is an adjective.

Words near overdight in the dictionary

  1. overdifferentiating
  2. overdifferentiation
  3. overdifferentiations
  4. overdiffuse
  5. overdigestion
  6. overdight
  7. overdignified
  8. overdignifies
  9. overdignify
  10. overdignifying
  11. overdignity

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