Definition of "overspread" []

• To spread or extend over the surface of: Dark clouds are overspreading the sky. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Rain, sometimes quite heavy (especially from DC and to the east), will again overspread the metro region over the next several hours."
• ""Oh, mother, I never once dreamed of such presumption as to think of – of" – The youth paused and a deep blush again overspread his face."
• "Gaul was again overspread with woods; and the animals, who were reserved for the use or pleasure of the lord, might ravage with impunity the fields of his industrious vassals."