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单词 overtrace
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overtracev.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtreɪs/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtreɪs/
Forms: see over- prefix and trace v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, trace v.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + trace v.1
Chiefly poetic and literary.
1. transitive. To trace over; to cover or mark with tracery or tracings.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb] > trace over
overtrace1826
a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) 652 With topyes & [perh. read hur] trechour Ouertrasyd þat tyde.
1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn 108 The..walls Are all o'ertraced by dying hands.
a1848 E. Brontë Compl. Wks. (1910) I. 272 Darkness was overtraced on every face.
1908 H. James What Maisie Knew in Novels & Tales xi. xxvi. 188 Nothing more remarkable had taken place..no act of perception less to be overtraced by our rough method.
1921 W. E. Henley With Fan from Rimmel's in Poems 286 Ivory, with lilac silk outspanned, With ruffling black sedately grand, With bloom of eglantine o'ertraced, Go, happy Fan.
1991 T. Hunt tr. R. Jeffers Love & Hate in Coll. Poetry III. 242 He found a match in the desk, dipped its butt in ink, And overtraced the pale pencil-lines.
2. transitive. To trace one's way over, pursue the track over. Obsolete.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground
runeOE
overcomeOE
meteOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
to pass over ——c1300
overpassc1325
tracec1381
travela1393
traverse?a1400
travelc1400
measure?a1425
walkc1450
go1483
journey1531
peragrate1542
trade1548
overspin1553
overtrace1573
tract1579
progress1587
invade1590
waste1590
wear1596
march1606
void1608
recovera1625
expatiate1627
lustrate1721
do1795
slip1817
cover1818
clear1823
track1823
itinerate1830
betravel1852
to roll off1867
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos x. Ffij b Tarience none he makes, but bridges hie doth ouertrace.
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. sig. Kkiii When lord Aeneas to the forest wide himself doth speede, And hilles doth ouertrace, and from thick wooddes doth forth proceede.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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