Dictionary Definition
overspread v : spread across or over; "A big oil
spot spread across the water" [syn: spread]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- To spread over or across something.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
apply to, beset, bespread, bestrew, blanket, block, broadcast, canopy, cap, circumfuse, cloak, clothe, cloud, cope, cover, cover up, cowl, crawl with, creep with,
crown, curtain, deal out, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, eclipse, extend throughout, fan
out, fill, film, flood, grow over, honeycomb, hood, imbue, infest, invade, issue, know no bounds, lay on, lay
over, leave no void, leaven, luxuriate, mantle, mask, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overcast, overflow, overgrow, overgrown, overlay, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspill, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, plague, propagate, publish, pullulate, put on, radiate, ravage, retail, run riot, run through,
scatter, screen, scum, shield, sow, sow broadcast, spill over,
splay, spread, spread out, spread over,
strew, suffuse, superabound, superimpose, superpose, swarm, swarm over, swarm with,
teem, teem over, teem with,
transfuse, utter, veil