Dictionary Entry
overlay
overlay is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- 2transitive verb
To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.
- 3transitive verb
To put an overlay on.
- 4noun
A covering.
- 5noun
A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- 6past tense
of Overlie
- 7noun
a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
- 8noun
protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- 9verb
kill by lying on
"The sow overlay her piglets"
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- 10verb
put something on top of something else
"cover the meat with a lot of gravy"
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