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overgreen

overgreen verb: to cover with greenery or a green color.

Verb

overgreen (third-person singular simple present overgreens, present participle overgreening, simple past and past participle overgreened)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To cover with greenery or a green color.
    • […] all the rocks and roots
      With olden film were overgreened; the pool,
      Broadened from falling water, sparkled with fires
      Of shafted crystal, and the sounding drops
      Splintered their fleeting pearl against the stone.1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo
    • The door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds

Forms of overgreen

third-person singular presentovergreens
present participleovergreening
past participleovergreened
pastovergreened

Origin of overgreen

From over- + green.

Questions about overgreen

What does overgreen mean?
Overgreen means to cover with greenery or a green color.
What part of speech is overgreen?
Overgreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of overgreen?
The past tense of overgreen is overgreened.

Words near overgreen in the dictionary

  1. overgreatness
  2. overgreed
  3. overgreedily
  4. overgreediness
  5. overgreedy
  6. overgreen
  7. overgreened
  8. overgreening
  9. overgreens
  10. overgrew
  11. overgrieve

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