Rebound vs Overcome - What's the difference?
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The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
An effort to recover from a setback.
A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
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(sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
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(basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
To bound or spring back from a force.
* Sir Isaac Newton
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To give back an echo.
(figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
To send back; to reverberate.
* Dryden
(rebind)
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
:to overcome enemies in battle
*Spenser
*:This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
(obsolete) To win (a battle).
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*:Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
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To come or pass over; to spread over.
*Shakespeare
*:And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
To overflow; to surcharge.
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In transitive terms the difference between rebound and overcome
is that rebound is to send back; to reverberate while overcome is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.As verbs the difference between rebound and overcome
is that rebound is to bound or spring back from a force while overcome is to surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.As a noun rebound
is the recoil of an object bouncing off another.rebound
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rebondir.Noun
(en noun)- I am on the rebound .
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Verb
(en verb)- Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
citation, page= , passage=Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.}}
- (Alexander Pope)
- Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound , / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
See also
* bound (verb)Etymology 2
see rebindVerb
(head)Anagrams
*overcome
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Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}
