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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overlight.

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Examples

  • I arrived in the middle of an overlit gymnasium filled with people eating crumbly muffins and holding cups of lukewarm coffee.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I arrived in the middle of an overlit gymnasium filled with people eating crumbly muffins and holding cups of lukewarm coffee.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • Like a real soap, this was produced on the cheap, overlit and often clumsily directed, and broadcast five nights a week.

    Weekly Mishmash: April 12-18 : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • Like a real soap, this was produced on the cheap, overlit and often clumsily directed, and broadcast five nights a week.

    2009 April : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • And as to craft, Spielberg's chops are always on point, but he let the overlit Kaminski style is soooooooo incredibly not welcome in the anamorphic world of Indiana Jones.

    Fancy paints on memory's canvas/Scenes that we hold dear Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In an overlit, discolored hallway, they stare at each other, grim with foreknowledge — and decide to go for it all over again.

    The Existential Clown 2008

  • Our tour guide from Appleton, Wisconsin will direct our attention to the overlit streets of the Treme, now studded with Banana Republics and Panera Breads.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • In an overlit, discolored hallway, they stare at each other, grim with foreknowledge — and decide to go for it all over again.

    The Existential Clown 2008

  • Her stark style was a marked departure from the dramatic and overlit pictures that were prevalent in Argentina at the time.

    Grete Stern. 2009

  • It's a pretty familiar style -- the opaque, overlit nude.

    Justine Lai paints herself having sex with each of the Presidents, beginning with George Washington. Ann Althouse 2009

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