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OVERLIE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: overlain    , overlay    , overlying   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kill by lying on

Example:

The sow overlay her piglets

Synonyms:

overlay; overlie

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "overlie" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lie upon; lie on top of

Example:

the granite overlies the older rocks

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "overlie" is one way to...):

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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 Context examples: 

A malignant neoplasm in which there is infiltration of the skin overlying the breast by neoplastic large cells with abundant pale cytoplasm and large nuclei with prominent nucleoli (Paget cells).

(Paget Disease of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

Solitary lesions of bone that typically cause a bulging of the overlying cortex bearing some resemblance to the saccular protrusion of the aortic wall in aortic aneurysm, hence the name.

(Aneurysmal Bone Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Clinical signs include sudden onset of radicular pain localizable to a dermatome with overlying cutaneous vascular lesions.

(Cobb Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Before the discovery of the Hiawatha impact crater, scientists generally assumed that most evidence of past impacts in Greenland and Antarctica would have been wiped away by unrelenting erosion by the overlying ice.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The harsh coat is medium to long, with a dense under coat and a straight, black-tipped, outer coat which produces a characteristic black overlay.

(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)

Excision of the apical portion of a tooth root through an opening made in the overlying labial, buccal, lingual, or palatal alveolar bone.

(Apicoectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

A high-resolution strip taken at approximately 760 feet (232 meters) per pixel is overlain on a broader, low-resolution image taken at 2,910 feet (889 meters) per pixel.

(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)

A form of ACTINOMYCOSIS characterized by slow-growing inflammatory lesions of the lymph nodes that drain the mouth (lumpy jaw), reddening of the overlying skin, and intraperitoneal abscesses.

(Cervicofacial Actinomycotic Infection, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The subsequent overlay of several graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) fabrics creates an active region, which enables charge storage.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)

Superficial vascularization of the cornea with infiltration of granulation tissue; an inflammatory exudate overlying the lining layer of synovial cells on the inside of a joint.

(Pannus Formation, NCI Thesaurus)