oversprinkle
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oversprinkle (third-person singular simple present oversprinkles, present participle oversprinkling, simple past and past participle oversprinkled)
- (transitive) To sprinkle over.
- (transitive, nonce word) To be sprinkled over (something).
- 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
- While the stars that oversprinkle / All the heavens seem to twinkle / With a crystalline delight.