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Meanings of overlying in English

Placed on or over something else.

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Usage of overlying in English
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The words reached down through the overlying structure of thought and habit.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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So, overlying the turbidites for hundreds of kilometers are younger deltaic deposits.
Wired
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Open journals lay with spines cracking under the weight of overlying issues.
Spider bones: a novel
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All patients showed retinal thinning and complete photoreceptor loss overlying the CHRPE.
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The man's smile was fixed, like a painting overlying his true feelings.
Fears Unnamed
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MARY-X, like its human counterpart, exhibited striking erythema of the overlying skin.
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The darkness was thick, crisscrossed by the overlying mesh of his mask.
The lies of locke lamora
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Several lumps of black, shiny pencil-stone were stuck to the overlying slate.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Results: We found 46 cases with anterior placenta praevia overlying a Caesarean scar.
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The identified association with overlying venous structures may reflect the etiological process involved.
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This reflects inflammation at the point where the overlying membrane was torn away.
206 Bones
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The existence of a true basal cell carcinoma overlying a dermatofibroma is infrequent.
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Larabee touched the stain haloing the borders of the overlying goo.
Devil Bones
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A broad-based, shallow jugular pit with an overlying vascular malformation was also present.
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There may be much selfish unfaithfulness overlying a real devoted heart.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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The overlying skin was usually had coarse telangiectasia with central or peripheral pallor.
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Overlying across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common