overlighting

Verb

overlight (third-person singular simple present overlights, present participle overlighting, simple past and past participle overlit or overlighted)

1. (transitive) To illuminate too brightly.
   • Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.2007 July 15, Andy Newman, “In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship”, in New York Times
2. (transitive) To illuminate from above.
   • Thus the stereotype is overlighted by the archetype, just as in conventional Egyptian statuary the historical pharoah is often shown standing under the god, the wings of Horus.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 215

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