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Overslow vs Oversow - What's the difference?

overslow | oversow |

As verbs the difference between overslow and oversow

is that overslow is to render slow; to check; to curb while oversow is to sow where something has already been sown.

As an adjective overslow

is too slow.

overslow

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Too slow.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To render slow; to check; to curb.
    • (Hammond)
    (Webster 1913)

    oversow

    English

    Verb

  • To sow where something has already been sown.
  • * Matthew 13:25 (Douay-Rheims version):
    • But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
  • * 1996 , C. P. Peacock, Improving Goat Production in the Tropics (ISBN 0855982691), page 115:

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