overarch

[ oh-ver-ahrch ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.

verb (used without object)
  1. to form an arch over something: a cerulean sky overarching in the early twilight.

Origin of overarch

1
First recorded in 1660–70; over- + arch1

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How to use overarch in a sentence

  • The scene from which he looked down,—was it the mere upper chamber of Juda, or did it overarch the human world?

    Studies of Christianity | James Martineau
  • What matters it that the tree planted to-day shall never overarch and protect you from the smiting sun?

    A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. | William Chauncey Bartlett
  • How abstract would be anything common to all times and places, how terrible a mocking truth that should overarch them for ever!

    Soliloquies in England | George Santayana
  • "To thee—and to thy seed:" these words span the gulf of two thousand years, and overarch the Mosaic dispensation.

  • Wonderful, too, are the Palms that overarch the driveway, and beautiful the gardens and panorama beyond.

British Dictionary definitions for overarch

overarch

/ (ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃ) /


verb
  1. (tr) to form an arch over

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