overdeck
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[edit]overdeck (third-person singular simple present overdecks, present participle overdecking, simple past and past participle overdecked)
- (transitive) To overdecorate.
- 1819, The Spectator:
- […] but one great hindrance in this my design, is, that our clerk, who was once a gardener, has this Christmas so overdecked the church with greens, that he has quite spoiled my prospect […]
- 2015, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women:
- She was neither overdressed nor overdecked in jewels, nor over made-up as some of her peers were; nor was she overboisterous.