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overlard

overlard verb: to cover or coat with lard.

Verb

overlard (third-person singular simple present overlards, present participle overlarding, simple past and past participle overlarded)

  1. (transitive) To cover or coat with lard.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To garnish or strew excessively.
    • Father D'Arcy defends Catholic theology against those who accuse it of overlarding the idea of God with definitions, and he remarks with perfect truth […]1921, New Catholic World, volume 113, page 160
    • The doubts arise from the effects of plaintiff's attorney's conduct in an atmosphere of fulsome overlarding.1943, Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court: Miscellaneous Reports, page 603

Forms of overlard

third-person singular presentoverlards
present participleoverlarding
past participleoverlarded
pastoverlarded

Origin of overlard

From over- + lard.

Questions about overlard

What does overlard mean?
Overlard means to cover or coat with lard.
What part of speech is overlard?
Overlard is a verb.
What is the past tense of overlard?
The past tense of overlard is overlarded.

Words near overlard in the dictionary

  1. overlappers
  2. overlapping
  3. overlappingly
  4. overlappings
  5. overlaps
  6. overlard
  7. overlarded
  8. overlarding
  9. overlardings
  10. overlards
  11. overlarge

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