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Definition of Overspreads

Overspread
Overspread O`ver*spread", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overspread; p. pr. & vb. n. Overspreading.] [AS. oferspr[=ae]dan.] To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. --Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. --Drayton.
Overspread
Overspread O`ver*spread", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overspread; p. pr. & vb. n. Overspreading.] [AS. oferspr[=ae]dan.] To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. --Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. --Drayton.
Overspread
Overspread O`ver*spread", v. i. To be spread or scattered over.

Meaning of Overspreads from wikipedia

- because Texas desired this, but because it was "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly...
- the mischief of created things; 3 From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads; 4 From the mischief of those who practise secret arts; 5 And from the...
- quoted above, when the venomous yeast from the Élivágar froze to ice and overspread its banks it fell as rain through the mild air of Ginnungagap. The rime...
- drier areas of the United States are regions where the Sonoran Desert overspreads the Desert Southwest, the Great Basin, and central Wyoming. Since rain...
- graded preglacial valley by the Pleistocene ice sheet. Here, the ice sheet overspread the plains from the moderately elevated Canadian highlands far on the...
- phrase in its context, stating that it must be "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly...
- public virtue. The peace – yes, we may say the profound peace – which overspreads the land since your arrival, proves that we alone stood in need of the...
- also stand in the way of what was deemed America's Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent. Clay was nominated for president by acclamation at the...
- "shapeless heap". Before the ocean and the earth appeared—before the skies had overspread them all— the face of Nature in a vast expanse was naught but Chaos uniformly...
- magazine which editorialized, "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny...to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly...