Overbear vs Overwear - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between overbear and overwear

is that overbear is (obsolete|transitive) to carry over while overwear is to wear out; to exhaust.

outer clothing.

(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.

To wear out; to exhaust.

* (wear out) (l), (l), (l)

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outer clothing