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Overlie meaning
To lie over or upon | To suffocate by lying upon
Example sentences (3)
These surveys also identified an embayment feature that may represent a shallow, fault bounded paleo-lakebed within the unconsolidated sediments that overlie the older volcanic and sedimentary “basement” rocks.
For example, windows were only displayed "tiled" on the screen; that is, they could not overlap or overlie one another.
Some other features of this kind are helmet streamers —large cap-like coronal structures with long pointed peaks that usually overlie sunspots and active regions.