overclad

comparative more overclad · superlative most overclad

1. Wearing more clothing than is necessary.

   Some of the children also are blackened, and none are overclad.

   1997, John Muir, Nature Writings

present singular third person overclads · participle present overcladding · participle past overcladded · past overcladded

1. transitiveTo cover the surface of, as if with clothing.

   Although that, in the days of Solomon, this mountain was overclad with forests of cedars, yet now there are but only these, and, nine miles westward thence, seventeen more.

   1770, William Lithgow, Travels and Voyages Through Europe, Asia and Africa for Nineteen Years

2. transitiveTo cover with insulation or cladding.