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Overbear vs Overbar - What's the difference?

overbear | overbar |

As a verb overbear

is (obsolete|transitive) to carry over.

As a noun overbar is

a bar placed over a symbol.

overbear

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To carry over.
  • To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, , Penguin Classics, p. 287:
  • I attacked first and they were overborne , / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
  • To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
  • To produce an overabundance of fruit.
  • English irregular verbs

    overbar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bar placed over a symbol.
  • \overline{A} is the letter A with an overbar .

    Synonyms

    * overline * overscore