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overlaid

Verb

The word is derived from overlay

Meaning

of Overlay

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space. Georges Braque

This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar. Patrick Modiano

Both men were the spiritual children of Voltaire, both had an ironical, sceptical view of life, and a native pessimism overlaid by gaiety; both knew that the existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions. George Orwell

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. Maurice Sendak

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage. William Mackergo Taylor

All of this is then overlaid with new initiatives and concepts launched by the Government to ease the impacts of what we are all facing, and furlough has now entered our daily vocabulary. Source: Internet

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