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Overbears vs Overbeats - What's the difference?

overbears | overbeats |

As verbs the difference between overbears and overbeats

is that overbears is (overbear) while overbeats is (overbeat).

overbears

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overbear)

  • 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

    overbeats

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overbeat)

  • overbeat

    English

    Verb

  • To beat (eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 16, author=, title=Recipe: Whole-Grain Pancakes, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Beat egg whites with an electric mixer or a whisk until stiff peaks form, but do not overbeat . }}