List of antonyms from "oversize" to antonyms from "overstuffed"


Discover our 526 antonyms available for the terms "overspendings, overstep, overstepped, overstrained, overstress, oversoon" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « overspreads »

  • As in invade : verb attack and encroach
  • As in overrun : verb infest, spread over; exceed
  • As in pervade : verb affect strongly; spread through
  • As in smear : verb rub on, spread over
  • As in blanket : verb cover
  • As in suffuse : verb spread out
  • As in cover : verb wrap, hide
  • As in envelop : verb encase, hide
  • As in fill : verb to put in and occupy the whole of
Example sentences :
  • It steals very slowly into northern Europe and overspreads it.
  • Extract from : « The New Stone Age in Northern Europe » by John M. Tyler
  • Little by little the alder (Alnus glutinosa) overspreads the marsh.
  • Extract from : « Territory in Bird Life » by H. Eliot Howard
  • Some seasons its bloom is scarcely in evidence; other seasons it overspreads the pastures.
  • Extract from : « Clovers and How to Grow Them » by Thomas Shaw
  • Mark the melancholy that overspreads his features, as he tastes that glass of sherry.
  • Extract from : « Round the Block » by John Bell Bouton
  • Cooloo, the great bird that overspreads all with his wings, was a chief.
  • Extract from : « Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore » by J. Walter Fewkes
  • With this unctuous gold of the dairy he overspreads his tough hard tack and shares his happiness with his messmates.
  • Extract from : « Our campaign around Gettysburg » by John Lockwood
  • A beautiful even tone of grey, finely blended with a warmth-giving red, now overspreads the sky.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 » by Various
  • They say it is of that form and size, when it first appears, though it soon grows and overspreads the whole heavens.
  • Extract from : « The Old Market-Cart » by Mrs. F. B. Smith
  • Little by little Balthazar's eyes lost their fire and took the glaucous opaque tint which overspreads the eyes of old men.
  • Extract from : « The Alkahest » by Honore de Balzac
  • "The grey vapour that overspreads his skies seldom admits a fleeting gleam of sunshine to pass through" (Burton).
  • Extract from : « A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools » by Various