Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overlay
Participle: overlaid
Gerund: overlaying
Indicative
Present
| I | overlay |
| you | overlay |
| he;she;it | overlays |
| we | overlay |
| you | overlay |
| they | overlay |
Perfect
| I | have overlaid |
| you | have overlaid |
| he;she;it | has overlaid |
| we | have overlaid |
| you | have overlaid |
| they | have overlaid |
Past
| I | overlaid |
| you | overlaid |
| he;she;it | overlaid |
| we | overlaid |
| you | overlaid |
| they | overlaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had overlaid |
| you | had overlaid |
| he;she;it | had overlaid |
| we | had overlaid |
| you | had overlaid |
| they | had overlaid |
Future
| I | will overlay |
| you | will overlay |
| he;she;it | will overlay |
| we | will overlay |
| you | will overlay |
| they | will overlay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overlaid |
| you | will have overlaid |
| he;she;it | will have overlaid |
| we | will have overlaid |
| you | will have overlaid |
| they | will have overlaid |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overlay |
| you | overlay |
| he;she;it | overlay |
| we | overlay |
| you | overlay |
| they | overlay |
Perfect
| I | have overlaid |
| you | have overlaid |
| he;she;it | have overlaid |
| we | have overlaid |
| you | have overlaid |
| they | have overlaid |
Imperfect
| I | overlaid |
| you | overlaid |
| he;she;it | overlaid |
| we | overlaid |
| you | overlaid |
| they | overlaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had overlaid |
| you | had overlaid |
| he;she;it | had overlaid |
| we | had overlaid |
| you | had overlaid |
| they | had overlaid |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overlay |
| you | would overlay |
| he;she;it | would overlay |
| we | would overlay |
| you | would overlay |
| they | would overlay |
Perfect
| I | would have overlaid |
| you | would have overlaid |
| he;she;it | would have overlaid |
| we | would have overlaid |
| you | would have overlaid |
| they | would have overlaid |
Imperative
| you | overlay |
| we | Let's overlay |
| you | overlay |
Verbs conjugated like 'overlay'
againsay,
appay,
assay,
belay,
enlay,
forelay,
foresay,
forlay,
forsay,
gainsay,
inlay,
interlay,
lay,
mislay,
mispay,
missay,
outlay,
outstay,
overlay,
overpay, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overlay'
overlap,
overpay,
overplay,
oversay,
overbuy,
overcloy,
overdry,
overeat,
overfly,
overjoy,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to cover the surface of (something)," c.1300, from
over +
lay (q.v.). There also was an
overlie (c.1175), but it had been merged into this word by 18c. The noun in the printing sense is attested from 1824; meaning "transparent sheet over a map, chart, etc." is from 1938.
2. From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie. See: Proto-Germanic '
*uberlagjaną', Frisian, Saterlandic 'uurläze', Dutch '
overleggen', German, old spelling '
überlegen', Swedish '
överlägga'.
Verbs referencing "overlay"
German, old spelling
überlegen.
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose
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She will now overlay the crust with fruit.
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She will now overlay fruit on top of the crust.
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For ſo exceeding ſhone his gliſtring ray,
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That Phœbus golden face it did attaint,
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As when a cloud his beames doth ouer-lay [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34, page 99:]
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By his preſcript a Sanctuary is fram'd
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Of Cedar, overlaid with Gold, [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1140–1141:]
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The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history. [1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:]
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when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it [c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:]
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And this womans childe died in the night: because she ouerlaid it. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 3:19:]
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a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire [1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:]
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Prostitutes, thieves, girls who ‘overlaid’ their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here? [1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 371:]
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[…] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses. [1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934:]