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Overlain

/oʊ.vɚ.leɪn/

To lie over or upon

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Word	Definition
cappedverb	(often in combinations) Having a cap (various senses).
coated	Covered with a thin layer.
coveredverb	Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).
draped	Covered by or clothed in cloth that drapes loosely around the object or body.
encased	Enclosed; existing within a container.
glaciated	covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action
guarded	Cautious; restrained.
littered	Covered in litter
overgrown	Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
overlaidverb	(transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
overlappedverb	To extend over and partly cover something.
recovered	freed from illness or injury
sheet-metalnoun	Alternative spelling of sheet metal. [Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet, used widely as construction material and raw material for a multitude of industrial products. It is thicker than foil and thinner than plate.]
topped	Having or consisting of a top; covered with a top layer.
wrappednoun	Encased in a wrapping.
overlayernoun	A layer of adatoms adsorbed onto a surface, as onto the surface of a single crystal.
overlayingverb	Overlaid ornamentation.
overlaysnoun	A covering over something else.
layered	Formed of layers.
underlaidverb	(transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.

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