overspread
- v spread across or over
- The monstrously gorged riversthe Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Wabash, Osage, White, many othersroared like millraces, rose until they overspread their banks .
- To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt.
- Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread it, diamonds, rubies, precious gems, thick as .