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1. A long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent ravelling
   - overcast

1. Make overcast or cloudy
   "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
   - cloud
    
2. Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
    
3. Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
   "overcast books"

Derived forms: overcastings

Type of: darken, run up, sew, sew together, stitch, whipping, whipstitch, whipstitching

Antonym: clear up

Encyclopedia: Overcast