Usually means: Sits or exists above something.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word overlies:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. overlies: Merriam-Webster
  2. overlies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overlies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overlies: Vocabulary.com
  5. overlies: Wordnik
  6. overlies: Wiktionary
  7. overlies: Dictionary.com
  8. overlies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlies: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See overlie as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overlie)

verb:  To lie over or upon
verb:  (transitive) To suffocate by lying upon
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