overlays

Verb

overlay (third-person singular simple present overlays, present participle overlaying, simple past and past participle overlaid or overlayed)

1. (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
   • Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose

   Synonyms:

   cover, superimpose, superpose

2. To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
   • when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon itc. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
3. (archaic, transitive) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
   • And this womans childe died in the night: because she ouerlaid it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 3:19
4. (transitive) To put an overlay on.
5. (transitive) To bet too much money on.
   • […] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934

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