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Overheat vs Overheal - What's the difference?

overheat | overheal |

In intransitive terms the difference between overheat and overheal

is that overheat is to become excessively hot while overheal is to heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.

As verbs the difference between overheat and overheal

is that overheat is to heat excessively while overheal is to cover over.

As a noun overheat

is a condition of being overheated.

overheat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To heat excessively
  • To become excessively hot

    • Derived terms

    * overheater

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A condition of being overheated.
  • * 2002 , Earl Rogers, Captain (page 245)
    • Continued operation with an overheat could lead to other serious problems, perhaps even a fire.

    overheal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) overhelen, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cover over.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 :
    • First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix [...]