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Overawe vs Overage - What's the difference?

overawe | overage |

As a verb overawe

is to restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.

As an adjective overage is

having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.

As a noun overage is

a surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.

overawe

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(overaw)
  • To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
    • None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe .
  • * 1849 , , Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , Volume I, ch. 57:
    • His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
  • * 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 61:
    • He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.

    Antonyms

    * underwhelm

    overage

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.
  • Too old to be of use in a particular situation.
    • Antonyms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
  • A state of being more than one ought to be.
    • You're entitled to bring a bag weighing fifty pounds onto the airplane, and will be charged extra for any overage .