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overdrape

overdrape verb: to drape (something) over something else.

Verb

overdrape (third-person singular simple present overdrapes, present participle overdraping, simple past and past participle overdraped)

  1. (transitive) To drape (something) over something else.
  2. (transitive) To be draped over (something).
    • Leave thy gleaming, crystal halls, / Where the velvet mosses green / Overdrape the dewy walls; […]1878, Charles Edgar Spencer, The Viking, Guy, Legend of the Moxahala: And Other Poems, page 29

Forms of overdrape

third-person singular presentoverdrapes
present participleoverdraping
past participleoverdraped
pastoverdraped

Origin of overdrape

From over- + drape.

Questions about overdrape

What does overdrape mean?
Overdrape means to drape (something) over something else.
What part of speech is overdrape?
Overdrape is a verb.
What is the past tense of overdrape?
The past tense of overdrape is overdraped.

Words near overdrape in the dictionary

  1. overdramatize
  2. overdramatized
  3. overdramatizes
  4. overdramatizing
  5. overdrank
  6. overdrape
  7. overdraped
  8. overdraperies
  9. overdrapery
  10. overdrapes
  11. overdraping

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