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superincumbent /ˌsuːp(ə)rɪnˈkʌmb(ə)nt /adjective literaryLying on something else: the crushing effect of the superincumbent masonry...- It is much more probable to suppose, that the sea had washed away the relics of the broken and disordered strata, before those that are now superincumbent had been begun to be deposited.
- The patient could not breathe because of superincumbent weight, Dionne remembered.
- These would penetrate the lower course at selected points halfway through the block, as well as into the superincumbent stone of the course above.
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