Word

mantle, v.
(mantled, mantles, mantling)

cover like a mantle
<verb.contact>

mantle

sample sentences

"The ivy mantles the building"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

cover, spread over

spread over a surface, like a mantle
<verb.motion>

mantle

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

spread out, fan out, spread, diffuse