Overhear vs Overheal - What's the difference?
overhear | overheal |
To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears.
(obsolete) To cover over.
To heal over.
To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
*2011 , Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering :
As verbs the difference between overhear and overheal
is that overhear is to hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears while overheal is (obsolete) to cover over or overheal can be to heal over.overhear
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Derived terms
* overheareroverheal
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) overhelen, equivalent to .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix [...]