Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cover over; cover completely.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cover over.
- v. transitive To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cover up.
Etymologies
- over- + cover (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The journalistic allocation, we overcover politics and undercover government.”
“KURTZ: It's probably impossible, Wolf, to overcover a story like this.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overcover’.
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Snowplows and Dough-troughs
A list of words whose "halves" look like they should rhyme, but don't, beginning with snowplow and dough-trough.
I'm going to need help finding terms to add to this list - any assistan...snowplow, dough-trough, tinging, cootfoot, bloodwood, know-how, lowbrow, downthrown, fierier, homecome, overcover, knowhow and 6 more...
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And the last first
Words with the first three or more letters repeated at the end, unless all letters are repeated (for those, see Isograms of lengths six, eight and ten). Overlaps are okay (alfalfa, entente), but wo...
nonphenomenon, underground, bicubic, ionization, microcosmic, nicotinic, interpoint, hotshot, atectate, ingesting, anemovane, physiography and 130 more...
Tweets
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strev I spy a spy Aug 20, 2009