Definition of "superimpose" []

• To lay or place (something) on or over something else. (verb-transitive)
• To add as a distinct feature, element, or quality: superimposed her own interpretation when she retold the story. (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.

• "All of which allows people to kind of superimpose their own interpretations on him."
• "He said it lived up to long-held suspicions that the United States, along with the Danish government, would "superimpose" an agreement on the rest of the world."
• "He was the first to "superimpose" words on the TV screen for a news show."