overgreen
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Verb
    
overgreen (third-person singular simple present overgreens, present participle overgreening, simple past and past participle overgreened)
- (transitive, poetic) To cover with greenery or green colour.
- 1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo:- […] all the rocks and roots
 With olden film were overgreened; the pool,
 Broadened from falling water, sparkled with fires
 Of shafted crystal, and the sounding drops
 Splintered their fleeting pearl against the stone.
 
- 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds:- The door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.
 
 
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