Overrule vs Overcome - What's the difference?
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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.
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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As verbs the difference between overrule and overcome
is that overrule is to rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority while overcome is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.overrule
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(en-verb)- His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
- The line judge signalled the ball was in, but this was overruled by the umpire.
overcome
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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.}}