Usually means: To lie on top of.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word overlie:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. overlie: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overlie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overlie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overlie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overlie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overlie, overlie: Wordnik
  7. overlie: Wiktionary
  8. overlie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. overlie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. overlie: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. overlie: Dictionary.com
  12. Overlie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. overlie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. overlie: Rhymezone
  15. Overlie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. overlie: Free Dictionary
  17. overlie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. overlie: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlie: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overlie: Medical dictionary

(Note: See overlain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overlie)

verb:  To lie over or upon
verb:  (transitive) To suffocate by lying upon

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