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Overbear vs Surmount - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between overbear and surmount

is that overbear is to carry over while surmount is to get over; to overcome.

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

    surmount

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to get over; to overcome
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 10.
    • this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art

    Related terms

    * surmountable * insurmountable

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