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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overwrap.

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Examples

  • The frame is then built via tube to tube construction overwrapped with additional carbon.

    Eurobike 2010 tech gallery – Getting fired up for cyclocross 2010

  • The portions of the rod guides that sit on the blank and are overwrapped with thread are known as the feet.

    The Home-Built Rod 2003

  • And now it is struck; for, starting from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his “flurry,” the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Policemen from the Temple curtained him round about; and after him, in order, strode the sanhedrim, and a long array of priests, the latter in their plain white garments overwrapped by abnets of many folds and gorgeous colours.

    Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

  • And now it is struck; for, starting from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his "flurry," the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • And now it is struck; for, starting from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his "flurry," the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • The SEA System, a safety measure for overwater missions, provides soldiers with a type of pressurized oxygen tank, known as a composite overwrapped pressure vessel or COPV.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Temperature - if the baby is overwrapped and overdressed and subsequently gets too hot, he/she has a higher risk, especially if he/she is placed down on his/her stomach.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Temperature - if the baby is overwrapped and overdressed and subsequently gets too hot, he/she has a higher risk, especially if he/she is placed down on his/her stomach.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • The problem I have is that the tea bags are still ridiculously overwrapped in individual paper envelopes with a string and a staple and a little tab on it.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2008

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