Overmarch vs Overmatch - What's the difference?
overmarch | overmatch |
To cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
* 1953 , Bruce Catton, The army of the Potomac
A match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other
* 1748 , , An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [http://books.google.com/books?id=aA9XN9zC56oC], 2007 Oxford ed., ΒΆ13:
To match more than intended.
To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
To marry to a superior.
As verbs the difference between overmarch and overmatch
is that overmarch is to cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching while overmatch is to match more than intended.As a noun overmatch is
a match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other.overmarch
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Verb
- They had been overmarched and underfed and they had been ruinously beaten by the Rebels. Someone would have to work on them before they would amount to much as fighting troops.
overmatch
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Noun
(es)- we can increase the velocity of that force, so as to make it an overmatch for its antagonist.
Verb
(es)- The regular expression overmatched , capturing the entire paragraph instead of the specific sentence.
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