Meanings
verboverdrape (third-person singular simple present overdrapes, present participle overdraping, simple past and past participle overdraped)
present singular third person overdrapes · participle present overdraping · participle past overdraped · past overdraped
- transitiveTo drape (something) over something else.
- transitiveTo be draped over (something).
Leave thy gleaming, crystal halls, / Where the velvet mosses green / Overdrape the dewy walls; […]
1878, Charles Edgar Spencer, The Viking, Guy, Legend of the Moxahala: And Other Poems, page 29
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