Overwait vs Overwit - What's the difference?
overwait | overwit |
To wait for an excessive amount of time; wait beyond the time allowed or expected; wait too long.
* 1915 , Worcester Polytechnic Institute, The Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute :
* 2000 , Jeff Walling, Daring to Dance With God :
The period of time one overwaits; an excessive duration of waiting; delay.
* 1912 , The English reports:
As verbs the difference between overwait and overwit
is that overwait is to wait for an excessive amount of time; wait beyond the time allowed or expected; wait too long while overwit is to outwit.As a noun overwait
is the period of time one overwaits; an excessive duration of waiting; delay.overwait
English
Verb
(en verb)- I didn't waste any time getting to sleep, and the orderly didn't overwait his time, either. I miscalculated on the moon and the depth of our chasm. I expected the moon to appear some time before midnight, but she didn't.
- I'm convinced we behave like this because most of us overwait for times of respite, and then we try to cram a month's peace into two weeks of hectic vacationing.
Noun
(en noun)- But they have objected that this word oppresse is incertain; for he may be oppressed with overwait , or hunger and cold.