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Overheave vs Overleave - What's the difference?

overheave | overleave |

As verbs the difference between overheave and overleave

is that overheave is (obsolete) to overcast while overleave is to leave (something) over; cause to remain or be left.

As a noun overleave is

a leave which exceeds the approved or prescribed amount of time.

overheave

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To overcast.

    • overleave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) overleven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To leave (something) over; cause to remain or be left.
  • *1999 , Saint Edmund Campion, James V. Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge :
    • And of such force was this verity, so fresh and recent in men's memory, that amongst so many enemies of his, that lay in wait to overleave him with lies, no one was thenceforth found who could refell [deny] these words of Campion.
  • To remain; be left over.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leave which exceeds the approved or prescribed amount of time.
  • *1949 , United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Manual, 1949 :
    • [...] Absence without leave (including overleave and desertion).
  • *2011 , L Ron Hubbard, Orders Is Orders :
    • “Didn't you threaten to bobtail one of your sergeants for being drunk and overleave in Shanghai last week?