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Overwears vs Overbears - What's the difference?

overwears | overbears |

As verbs the difference between overwears and overbears

is that overwears is (overwear) while overbears is (overbear).

overwears

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overwear)

    • overwear

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To wear out; to exhaust.
    • Synonyms
    * (wear out) (l), (l), (l)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • outer clothing

    • overbears

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overbear)

    • overbear

    English

    Verb

  • (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:
    • I attacked first and they were overborne , / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
  • 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