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overfly

overfly verb: to fly over something.

overfly: to fly over something
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Verb

overfly (third-person singular simple present overflies, present participle overflying, simple past overflew, past participle overflown)

  1. To fly over something.
    • My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
    • In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193
  2. To fly too far past something.
    • The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.

Forms of overfly

third-person singular presentoverflies
present participleoverflying
pastoverflew
past participleoverflown

Past tense of overfly: overflew

Origin of overfly

From over- + fly.

Words formed from overfly

Questions about overfly

What does overfly mean?
Overfly means to fly over something.
What part of speech is overfly?
Overfly is a verb.
What is the past tense of overfly?
The past tense of overfly is overflew.

Words near overfly in the dictionary

  1. overflush
  2. overflushed
  3. overflushes
  4. overflushing
  5. overflux
  6. overfly
  7. overflying
  8. overfoam
  9. overfoamed
  10. overfoaming
  11. overfoams

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