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superlay

superlay is the simple past of superlie.

Meaning of superlie

Verb

superlie (third-person singular simple present superlies, present participle superlying, simple past superlay, past participle superlain)

  1. (dated, transitive) To lie above.
    • […] the soil of the river into which they have been sent, and which they enclose, is dredged or rather scooped out until the hard gravel which superlies the clay is reached […]1858, The civil engineer and architect's journal, Volume 21

Questions about superlay

What is superlay the simple past of?
Superlay is the simple past of superlie.

Words near superlay in the dictionary

  1. superlattice
  2. superlatticed
  3. superlattices
  4. superlawyer
  5. superlawyers
  6. superlay
  7. superlayer
  8. superlayers
  9. superleague
  10. superleagues
  11. superleak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: superlay (page history and authors); superlie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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