Overcover

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cover over. transitive

    "The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill."

  2. 2
    To give too much coverage (as for example on television). transitive

    "You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much."

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"The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill."

Etymology

From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- + cover.

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