Overbears vs Overbeats - What's the difference?
overbears | overbeats |
(overbear)
(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
(overbeat)
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
, passage=Beat egg whites with an electric mixer or a whisk until stiff peaks form, but do not overbeat . }}
As verbs the difference between overbears and overbeats
is that overbears is (overbear) while overbeats is (overbeat).overbears
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(head)overbear
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- I attacked first and they were overborne , / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
overbeats
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(head)overbeat
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