overgreen
English
Etymology
over- + green
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.
- […] all the rocks and roots
- 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds
- The door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.
- 1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo