overarch
to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
to form an arch over something: a cerulean sky overarching in the early twilight.
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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 MartineauWhat 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 BartlettHow 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.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians | G. G. FindlayWonderful, too, are the Palms that overarch the driveway, and beautiful the gardens and panorama beyond.
Beautiful Gardens in America | Louise Shelton
British Dictionary definitions for overarch
/ (ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃ) /
(tr) to form an arch over
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