Overmatch vs Overmaster - What's the difference?
overmatch | overmaster |
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.
to overpower or overwhelm
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
*:Did I forget! Shall I ever . . . can I ever! Can any of us ever forget that terrible scene! Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance, but the pain overmastered her and she put her hands before her face, and shuddered whilst she moaned.
As verbs the difference between overmatch and overmaster
is that overmatch is to match more than intended while overmaster is to overpower or overwhelm.As a noun overmatch
is a match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other.overmatch
English
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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