overspread

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

overspread

apply to, beset, bespread, bestrew, blanket, block, broadcast, canopy, cap, circumfuse, cloak, clothe, cloud, cope, cover, cover up, cowl, crawl with, creep with, crown, curtain, deal out, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, eclipse, extend throughout, fan out, fill, film, flood, grow over, honeycomb, hood, imbue, infest, invade, issue, know no bounds, lay on, lay over, leave no void, leaven, luxuriate, mantle, mask, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overcast, overflow, overgrow, overgrown, overlay, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspill, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, plague, propagate, publish, pullulate, put on, radiate, ravage, retail, run riot, run through, scatter, screen, scum, shield, sow, sow broadcast, spill over, splay, spread, spread out, spread over, strew, suffuse, superabound, superimpose, superpose, swarm, swarm over, swarm with, teem, teem over, teem with, transfuse, utter, veil

ROGET THESAURUS

overspread

Dispersion

VB disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute, apportion, blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off, strew, straw, strow, ted, spirtle, cast, sprinkle, issue, deal out, retail, utter, resperse, intersperse, set abroach, circumfuse, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

Covering

VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.