overarch

American  

[oh-ver-ahrch] / ˌoʊ vərˈɑrtʃ /

verb (used with object)

1. to span with or like an arch.

   A new bridge overarches the river.

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verb (used without object)

1. to form an arch over something.

   a cerulean sky overarching in the early twilight.

overarch British  

/ ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃ /

verb

1. (tr) to form an arch over

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Etymology

Origin of overarch

First recorded in 1660–70; over- + arch ¹

Example Sentences

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overarch

In its place he developed a lively and somewhat overarch Guedalla English which soon helped to make biographies almost as popular reading as novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

His great soul overhung his friends as the harvests overarch the fields, "filling the flowers with heat by day, and cooling them with dews by night."

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

The trees overarch you gently, and bend with graceful salutations; the rocks are most generous hearth-stones, and the pools under the cliffs are large enough for a morning splash.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

Maxillae supporting large, incurved, compressed bony crests, which overarch the nostrils and base of the rostrum, and almost meet in the middle line above.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

Give him thy ways, and he will overarch life's path as the heavens overarch the flowers, filling them with heat by day and yielding cooling dews by night.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis