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OVERFLY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected forms: overflew , overflown
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overfly ... he / she / it overflies
Past simple: overflew
Past participle: overflown
-ing form: overflying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The plane passed over Damascus
Synonyms:
overfly; pass over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "overfly" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something