overgreen

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ green

Verb[edit]

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.