Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To smear with a red color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To smear with red.
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Examples
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They could not come to a clear agreement, a clear understanding, so they wrote words that paper-overred the differences and they did so consciously.
2nd Amendment, Original Intent, and Disregard of the Constitution « Lean Left 2008
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They could not come to a clear agreement, a clear understanding, so they wrote words that paper-overred the differences and they did so consciously.
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They could not come to a clear agreement, a clear understanding, so they wrote words that paper-overred the differences and they did so consciously.
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I called my sister unable to breath or speak I think she thought I was a prankster because I was laughing so hard and double-overred with tears.
Promises, Promises Jen 2008
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And now, fill round, and fill too, a cup to thyself to overred thy fear, as mad Will has it.
Woodstock 1855
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And now, fill round, and fill too, a cup to thyself to overred thy fear, as mad Will has it.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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And till by the end of the next year these tests will be overred.
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