oversweep
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editoversweep (third-person singular simple present oversweeps, present participle oversweeping, simple past and past participle overswept)
- (transitive) To sweep over; to cover by sweeping.
- 1817, John Keats, I stood tip-toe upon a little hill:
- Ah, sure no tasteful nook would be without them
And let a lush laburnum oversweep them,
And let long grass grow round the roots to keep them
Moist, cool and green; and shade the violets
That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.