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Overcome vs Superability - What's the difference?

overcome | superability |

As a verb overcome

is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.

As a noun superability is

superableness; the ability of an obstacle to be overcome.

overcome

English

Verb

  • 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).
  • *:
  • *: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= 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.}}
  • (usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
  • :
  • 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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    superability

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • superableness; the ability of an obstacle to be overcome.
  • * 1912 , George Tyrrell, Maude Dominica Petre, Autobiography and life of George Tyrrell
    • But if I was cheered at the superability of the moral obstacle, I quailed before the intellectual and educational test...

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • Exceptional ability.
  • * 1970 , Charles Henry Meisgeier, John D King, The process of special education administration
    • ...it may be maintained that a special education service may be provided only upon the establishment of the existence of a learning superability ...