Word Meanings - OVERSPREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. Drayton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERSPREAD)

• Cover Hide
• conceal
• cloak
• screen
• secrete
• protect
• meet
• secure
• overspread
• clothe
• shield
• shelter
• cover

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OVERSPREAD)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Loosen
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to OVERSPREAD)

• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.