Definition of "overlies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overlie. (verb)

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• "This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity."
• "After all, a warm and humid atmosphere that is capable of sustaining thunderstorm clusters, that overlies bath-like ocean water, and that slowly rotates in a counterclockwise fashion, is an ideal place for tropical cyclone development."
• "Delicatessen by Mark Caro and Jean-Pierre Juenet is a surreal post-apocalyptic black comedy set in the house belonging to a butcher who provides suspicious meats to his tenants and overlies a world populated by troglydytes who eat only grain."