overgild

American

[oh-ver-gild] / ˌoʊ vərˈgɪld /

verb (used with object)

overgilded, overgilt, overgilding

to cover with gilding.
to tint with a golden color.

morning sunlight that overgilds the rooftops.

Etymology

Origin of overgild

before 1050; Middle English overgilden, Old English ofergyldan. See over-, gild ¹

Example Sentences

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She knew that they were talking about that old trouble, and Nahum Beals's voice of high wrath made her shrink; but, after all, she was removed from it all that night into a little prospective paradise of her own, which, as is the case in childhood, seemed to overgild her own future and all the troubles of the world.

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