Synonyms of the word overlie


OVERLIEKILL - LIE - OVERLAY

overlie

  • v. To lie over or upon.
  • v. (transitive) To suffocate by lying upon.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

overlay

  • v. (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.
  • v. To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
  • v. (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
  • n. (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger…
  • n. (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
  • n. (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
  • n. A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
  • n. (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace…
  • n. (Internet) A pop-up.

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