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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overlie \O`ver*lie"\, v. t. [imp. {Overlay}; p. p. {Overlain};
p. pr & vb n. {Overlying}.]
To lie over or upon specifically, to suffocate by lying
upon as to overlie an infant. --Quain.
A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her
sleeping. --Chaucer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
overlie
v 1: lie upon lie on top of "the granite overlies the older
rocks"
2: kill by lying on "The sow overlay her piglets" [syn: {overlay}]
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