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

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 Hillis, Newell Dwight

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

From Beautiful Gardens in America by Shelton, Louise

I again perceive       The soothing influence of the wafted strains,       And settle in soft musings as I tread       The walk, still verdant, under oaks and elms,       Whose outspread branches overarch the glade.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

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