overrake verb5 •To rake or scrape over.Better methods are happily coming into use, and it is already being found profitable to overrake the spoil-hillocks of our ancestors. — 1901 •To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves break over a vessel anchored with its head to the sea.The big water overraked her waist like a mighty river running over, and with the extremity of evil weather, she was like to be shaken asunder. — 1906 •To rake over or assault, as enemy gunfire attacking the entire force. •To rake or scrape to excess.Of his depth of feeling, his exquisite sensibility, and his poetic fire (which burned the more vigorously, perhaps, for not being overraked with a classical poker) , this is not the place to treat. — 1903 •To install with too great a slope or angle.Overraked poles are always an eyesore, and undoubtedly detract from the appearance of the overhead equipment, no matter how well it is erected. — 1938 formsoverraked · overraking · overrakes