Overfly (overflew, overflown) (original) (raw)

Pronunciation (US):		(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: overflew , overflown

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they overfly ... he / she / it overflies

Past simple: overflew

Past participle: overflown

-ing form: overflying

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fly over

Example:

The plane passed over Damascus

Synonyms:

overfly; pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "overfly" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Domain category:

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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