pave over
phrasal verb
paved over; paving over; paves over
disapproving
: to cover (an area) with roads, parking lots, buildings, etc.
All this beautiful farmland will be paved over.
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According to one popular hypothesis, the pot had eventually boiled over: after eons of frustrated heating, some 800 million years ago, the planet’s outer shell buckled, and Venus’s entire surface was paved over with immense outpourings of fresh lava.
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Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
His coping mechanism of deflecting shame through humor works only when used to pave over his many inadequacies.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
As open fields and forests are being paved over, the natural life cycle of fireflies is disrupted as these luminescent beetles are displaced.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
When those industries dried up by the 1950s, most of Hawaii’s agricultural land was paved over for tourism development.
—Jessica MacHado, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
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Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
His coping mechanism of deflecting shame through humor works only when used to pave over his many inadequacies.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
As open fields and forests are being paved over, the natural life cycle of fireflies is disrupted as these luminescent beetles are displaced.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
When those industries dried up by the 1950s, most of Hawaii’s agricultural land was paved over for tourism development.
—Jessica MacHado, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Pave over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pave%20over. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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