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adj. - Lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else.

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Usage examples (33)
  • superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition
  • "Leave me, leave me, to repose:" and all go away home; like a party of miners who have given up the attempt to dig out persons buried in superincumbent earth!
  • Many structures of this kind fall of their own superincumbent weight and clumsiness.
  • This element is the constantly recurring lifting of the superincumbent weight of the machine.
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