overspread

[ oh-ver-spred ]

/ ˌoʊ vərˈsprɛd /

to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.

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before 1000; Middle English overspreden, Old English ofersprǣdan. See over-, spread

The bottoms near are overspread with a dense growth of trees and vines, among which latter I noticed the Muscadine grape.
Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills|Luella Agnes Owen
The loess has also overspread the high adjoining platform near the village of Plaidt above Andernach.
A Manual of Elementary Geology|Charles Lyell.
It was fairly smooth and overspread by a fine sand that bore the impress of many sandaled feet.
The Gilded Man|Clifford Smyth
Those fern-like forms, which on a frosty morning overspread your windowpanes, illustrate the action of the same force.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2|John Tyndall

Then even that practised diplomat allowed amazement to overspread him.
Little Aliens|Myra Kelly