overgreen

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verb

To cover with greenery or a green color.

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Meanings

verbovergreen (third-person singular simple present overgreens, present participle overgreening, simple past and past participle overgreened)

present singular third person overgreens · participle present overgreening · participle past overgreened · past overgreened

  1. poetictransitiveTo cover with greenery or a green color.

    The door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.

    1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds
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    […] all the rocks and roots With olden film were overgreened; the pool, Broadened from falling water, sparkled with fires Of shafted crystal, and the sounding drops Splintered their fleeting pearl against the stone.

    1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo

Origin

From over- + green.

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APA

overgreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgreen

MLA

“overgreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgreen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overgreen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgreen.

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