Overdo vs Overbear - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between overdo and overbear

is that overdo is to do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far while overbear is to carry over.

To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.

* Shakespeare

Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.

To overtask or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust.

to overdo one's strength

To surpass; to excel.

(Tennyson)

To cook too much.

to overdo the meat

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(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.