Overgild

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  • v. To cover with gilding.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To gild over; to varnish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover with gilding: as, to overgild the carving of a piece of furniture.
    • Word Usage
    "She knew that they were talking about that old trouble, and Nahum Beals's voice of high wrath made her shrink; but, after all, she was removed from it all that night into a little prospective paradise of her own, which, as is the case in childhood, seemed to overgild her own future and all the troubles of the world."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    varnish   
     
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