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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overlie.

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Examples

  • Delicatessen by Mark Caro and Jean-Pierre Juenet is a surreal post-apocalyptic black comedy set in the house belonging to a butcher who provides suspicious meats to his tenants and overlies a world populated by troglydytes who eat only grain.

    MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction 2009

  • This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • After all, a warm and humid atmosphere that is capable of sustaining thunderstorm clusters, that overlies bath-like ocean water, and that slowly rotates in a counterclockwise fashion, is an ideal place for tropical cyclone development.

    Tropical storm Nicole not so tropical Greg Postel 2010

  • This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • This is necessary: the playful veneer displayed by Clegg and Cameron at their rose garden press conference last week overlies great uncertainties.

    The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance 2010

  • This goal overlies and explains everything the party does.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • It overlies quaternary deposits mainly of sand sheets.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • Geologically, Ujung Kulon, Gunung Honje and Pulau Panaitan are part of a young Tertiary mountain system, which overlies the pre-Tertiary strata of the Sunda Shelf.

    Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009

  • The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya.

    Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States 2009

  • Geologically, the ecoregion overlies a mixture of Precambrian basement rocks, and a number of post-Jurassic sedimentary basins.

    East Sudanian savanna 2009

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