Overbear vs Overbar - What's the difference?
overbear | overbar |
(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:
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
As a verb overbear
is (obsolete|transitive) to carry over.As a noun overbar is
a bar placed over a symbol.overbear
English
Verb
- I attacked first and they were overborne , / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.