Meaning

2 senses

  1. To lie over or upon

    The new sediment layers overlie the older rock formations.

    lie upon; lie on top of

  2. (transitive)To suffocate by lying upon

    kill by lying on

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tor is an example of an overlay network.

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  2. Reels employs Instagram’s preexisting augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos.

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Origin

From Middle English overlien, overliggen, equivalent to over- + lie (“to be reclined”). Co

From Middle English overlien, overliggen, equivalent to over- + lie (“to be reclined”). Compare West Frisian oerlizze, German überliegen, Danish overligge, Swedish överligga, Norwegian overligge.

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Forms

overlies, overlying, overlay, overlain
Base formoverlie · to overlie
3rd person singularoverlies
Present participleoverlying
Past simpleoverlay
Past participleoverlain

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverlie
he, she, itoverlies

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverlay

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overlain
he, she, ithas overlain

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overlie

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overlapB2overlayC2overloadoverlookB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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