Sekirov Dictionary

overscent

/ˌəʊvəˈsɛnt/

verb 3
/ˈəʊvəˌsɛnt/ noun 1
forms 3

verb3

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To give too much scent to (something or someone); to scent excessively.
- Licking articles is sometimes seen in an experienced dog when the handler is very nervous, has sweaty palms, and overscents the article. — 2003
•
[with oneself] To apply too much scent to oneself.
- It is never good taste to overscent one’s-self, but a person who uses no kind of artificial perfume at all, neither in soap nor in pomade, nor yet in the linen, is not always the most agreeable. — 1873
•
To scent so as to cover or conceal the original odour.
- […] she feels the truck moving toward her, rattling the small-town night with its rough bellow, close enough now to scrape the low-hanging branches and overscent the gentle lilacs, — 1994

overscent

/ˈəʊvəˌsɛnt/

noun1

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A scent that is added to or layered over another.
- Through the broken windows of the wheelhouse came a stench compounded of bog and decay, the watery overscent of the thrusting river that had lured Sir Walter Raleigh toward a mythical El Dorado. — 1977

forms

overscented · overscenting · overscents

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