Overrude vs Overrule - What's the difference?
overrude | overrule |
(rare) Too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.
* 1874 , Emily Jolly, Colonel Dacre
To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
# To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
* Clarendon
To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
(legal) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
1.
to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person):
The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
2.
to rule or decide against (a plea, argument, etc.); reject:
to overrule an objection.
3.
to prevail over so as to change the purpose or action:
a delay that overruled our plans.
4.
to exercise control or influence over:
belief in a beneficent deity that overrules the universe.
As an adjective overrude
is too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.As a verb overrule is
to rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.overrude
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude , autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air...
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*overrule
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Verb
(en-verb)- His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
- The line judge signalled the ball was in, but this was overruled by the umpire.