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Overlie

Webster's Dictionary 1913

O′ver‐lie″ (?), v. t. [imp.Overlay (?); p. p.Overlain (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Overlying.] To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain.

A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.