"overcover" meaning in English

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      "form": "overcovers",
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    {
      "form": "overcovering",
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          "text": "The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill."
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        "To cover over."
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        "(transitive) To cover over."
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          "text": "You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much.",
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        "To give too much coverage (as for example on television)."
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        "(transitive) To give too much coverage (as for example on television)."
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  "word": "overcover"
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        "(transitive) To give too much coverage (as for example on television)."
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