overgreen

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ green.

Verb

overgreen (third-person singular simple present overgreens, present participle overgreening, simple past and past participle overgreened)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with greenery or green colour.
   • 1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo:

     […] all the rocks and roots
     With olden film were overgreened; the pool,
     Broadened from falling water, sparkled with fires
     Of shafted crystal, and the sounding drops
     Splintered their fleeting pearl against the stone.

   • 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds:

     The door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.