overcover

verb — 2 senses

overcover

verb

Etymology From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- + cover.

1

To cover over.

The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.

2

To give too much coverage (as for example on television).

You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much.2009 May 3, Nicholas Kristof, “Bright Continent”, in New York Times:

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