Overpass vs Overcome - What's the difference?
overpass | overcome |
A section of a road or path that es over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
To disregard, skip, or miss something.
* Milton
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
:to overcome enemies in battle
*Spenser
*:This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
(obsolete) To win (a battle).
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*:Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
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, chapter=2, title= (usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
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To come or pass over; to spread over.
*Shakespeare
*:And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
To overflow; to surcharge.
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In transitive terms the difference between overpass and overcome
is that overpass is to disregard, skip, or miss something while overcome is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.As verbs the difference between overpass and overcome
is that overpass is to pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road while overcome is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.As a noun overpass
is a section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.overpass
English
Noun
(es)- The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass .
Synonyms
flyover (UK)Antonyms
underpass (US&UK) subway (UK)See also
* underpass * overbridgeVerb
(es)- Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.
- (Robert Browning)
- Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
- The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.
- "Don't overpass those cheeses; they're really quite excellent!" gushed Terry, pointing to the buffet table.
- All the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed .
Anagrams
*overcome
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}