Home › Words › S › superliesuperliesuperlie means to lie above.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, superlie ranks #40,957 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom super- + lie.verbTo lie above.e.g.“[…] the soil of the river into which they have been sent, and which they enclose, is dredged or rather scooped out until the hard gravel which superlies the clay is reached […]” — 1858, The civil engineer and architect's journal, Volume 21:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).