superimpose
/ˈsuː.pɚ.ɪmˌpoʊ̯z/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To establish a structural system over, independently of underlying structures.
Example Sentences
- "He superimposed the company logo over the image."
- "It involves superimposing broken English written in multi-coloured Comic Sans on to pictures of shiba inus, a small Japanese breed of dog known for its spirited stubbornness."
- "His protagonists all suffer from severe sense of guilt which cannot be explained from the actions and occurrences in the stories itself. What is happening in reality is that the sense of guilt is implied by the author and narrator. In fact Franz Kafka superimposes his autistic guilt onto the protagonists of his stories which has the effect that the causal mechanisms behind the guilt felt by the protagonists cannot be discerned from events within the story."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsuː.pɚ.ɪmˌpoʊ̯z/
- British English: /ˈsuː.pəɹ.ɪmˌpəʊ̯z/