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List of synonyms from "overfatigue" to synonyms from "overmuch"


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Definition of the day : « overlying »

  • As in superior : adj better, greater, higher; excellent
  • As in overlapping : adj coinciding
  • As in lap : verb overlap
  • As in overlap : verb lie over something else
  • As in tower above : verb dominate
  • As in dominate : verb tower above
Example sentences :
  • The red of nature had come into her cheeks and fought there with the overlying hue of art.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Light was in his face, overlying the flush of simple passions.
  • Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown
  • The water, as it plunges down, undermines the overlying rock.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lyell and Modern Geology » by Thomas George Bonney
  • They are of older date than the overlying and undisturbed coal-measures.
  • Extract from : « A Manual of Elementary Geology » by Charles Lyell.
  • And no proof has been made from the nature or depth of the overlying deposits.
  • Extract from : « Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith » by Robert Patterson
  • Overlying this are beds of marl, loam, and surface soil, comprising in all a depth of fourteen feet.
  • Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen
  • Below this surface soil is a stratum of sand, overlying the gravelly beds below and passing into the surface soil just mentioned.
  • Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen
  • The fossils it bears are usually of species which swam in the overlying water and came to the bottom after death.
  • Extract from : « Outlines of the Earth's History » by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
  • It may be injected into the overlying strata in the form of dikes, or it may be blown forth into the air through volcanoes.
  • Extract from : « Outlines of the Earth's History » by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
  • Its great wealth is its deep black humus varying in depth from ten inches to three feet, overlying a warm subsoil.
  • Extract from : « Canada West 1914 » by Unknown