单词 | overcreep |
释义 | overcreepv. Now rare. transitive. To creep or spread over or across. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > extend over > extend over so as to cover overgroweOE wryc1275 overtakec1425 overreachc1440 overrun?1440 spread?1567 overcreep1640 cover1874 1640 J. Culpeper in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 33 A Nest of Wasps, or Swarm of Vermin, which have over~crept the Land. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 10 Faint, lazy Waves o'ercreep the ridgy Sand. 1854 J. G. Whittier Fruit-gift 17 Its parent vine..O'ercrept the wall. 1893 R. Garnett Bismarck & Moltke in Poems 134 But cold upon the sand his fellow lies, The far-flung shadow of whose dawnless sleep The many-nationed world doth overcreep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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