1. overlying

adjective. ['ˌoʊvɝˈlaɪɪŋ'] placed on or over something else.

Rhymes with Overlying

• indemnifying
• semidrying
• misapplying
• underlying
• overflying
• complying
• supplying
• retrying
• replying
• implying
• decrying
• undying
• relying
• denying
• defying
• belying
• applying
• trying
• spying
• prying
• plying
• frying
• flying
• drying
• crying
• allying
• vying
• tying
• tieing
• sighing

Sentences with overlying

1. Verb, gerund or present participle
Blood sometimes leaks from these vessels, which degrades and discolors the overlying skin much like a bruise does.

Quotes about overlying

1. Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations