Overturn vs Overbear - What's the difference?
overturn | overbear | Related terms |
To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
To overthrow or destroy something
(legal) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.
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(obsolete) To carry over.
To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, , Penguin Classics, p. 287:
To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
*:It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
To produce an overabundance of fruit.
English irregular verbs
Overturn is a related term of overbear.
As verbs the difference between overturn and overbear
is that overturn is to turn over, capsize or upset (something) while overbear is (obsolete|transitive) to carry over.overturn
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}
Anagrams
*overbear
English
Verb
- I attacked first and they were overborne , / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.