Placed on or over something else:
— An overlying image.

synonym: superimposed.

Roget 206: high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic etc. (big) 192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens); elevated etc. 307; upper; highest etc. (topmost) 210; high reaching, insessorial^†, perching.    upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt^†, cloudcapt^†, cloudtouching^†; aerial.    overhanging etc. v.; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent^†, supernatant, superimposed; prominent etc. v. 250.    tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky etc. (thin) 203.    ... show more

Lie upon; lie on top of.

Kill by lying on.

synonym: overlay.

Roget 223: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap etc. 225; encase, incase^†; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard [U.S.].    coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker^†, enamel, whitewash; parget^†; lay it on thick.    overlie, overarch^†; endome^†; conceal etc. 528.    [of aluminum] anodize.    [of steel] galvanize.    ... show more