Overcome vs Bury - What's the difference?
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To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
:to overcome enemies in battle
*Spenser
*:This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
(obsolete) To win (a battle).
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*:Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
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, chapter=2, title= (usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
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To come or pass over; to spread over.
*Shakespeare
*:And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
To overflow; to surcharge.
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To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
To place in the ground.
(transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
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, title= (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
(figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To score a goal.
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, title= (slang) To kill or murder.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury , and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
A borough; a manor
* 1843 , , book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
Overcome is a related term of bury.
As a verb overcome
is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.As a proper noun bury is
a metropolitan borough of greater manchester, england.overcome
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) burien, berien, from (etyl) .Verb
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
- Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1), passage=You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.}}
Derived terms
*Noun
(buries)References
Etymology 2
See (borough).Noun
(buries)- Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury , Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic
