superimpose

present singular third person superimposes · participle present superimposing · participle past superimposed · past superimposed

1. To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.

   He superimposed the company logo over the image.

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   It involves superimposing broken English written in multi-coloured Comic Sans on to pictures of shiba inus, a small Japanese breed of dog known for its spirited stubbornness.

   2014 February 18, Alex Hern, “What is Doge?”, in The Guardian

   His protagonists all suffer from severe sense of guilt which cannot be explained from the actions and occurrences in the stories itself. What is happening in reality is that the sense of guilt is implied by the author and narrator. In fact Franz Kafka superimposes his autistic guilt onto the protagonists of his stories which has the effect that the causal mechanisms behind the guilt felt by the protagonists cannot be discerned from events within the story.

   2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347

   Synonyms: overlay, superpose

2. geographyTo establish a structural system over, independently of underlying structures.