overlean
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overlean (third-person singular simple present overleans, present participle overleaning, simple past and past participle overleant or overleaned)
- (transitive) To lean over.
- 1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep:
- Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly […]