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overcover en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- + cover.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover over.
   • The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
2. (transitive) To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
   • You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much. 2009 May 3, Nicholas Kristof, “Bright Continent”, in New York Times:

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