Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1.
be central or dominant;
- Example: "This scene overarches the entire first act"2.
form an arch over;
- Example: "Big rocks overarch the stream"[syn: overarch, arch over]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Overarch \O`ver*arch"\, v. t. & i.
To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.
"Brown with o'erarching shades." --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
overarch
v 1: be central or dominant; "This scene overarches the entire
first act"
2: form an arch over; "Big rocks overarch the stream" [syn:
overarch, arch over]