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Overseal vs Overheal - What's the difference?

overseal | overheal |

As verbs the difference between overseal and overheal

is that overseal is to close with a seal at the top while overheal is (obsolete) to cover over or overheal can be to heal over.

As a noun overseal

is a seal at the top of something, to close it.

overseal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To close with a seal at the top.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seal at the top of something, to close it.

    • overheal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) overhelen, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cover over.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To heal over.
  • To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
  • *2011 , Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering :
    • First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix [...]