Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover over; cover completely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
cover over . - verb transitive To give too much
coverage (as for example ontelevision ).
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
over- + cover
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Examples
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The journalistic allocation, we overcover politics and undercover government.
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KURTZ: It's probably impossible, Wolf, to overcover a story like this.
strev commented on the word overcover
I spy a spy
August 20, 2009