Vanquish vs Overbear - What's the difference?
vanquish | overbear | Related terms |
To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
(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
Vanquish is a related term of overbear.
As verbs the difference between vanquish and overbear
is that vanquish is to defeat, to overcome while overbear is (obsolete|transitive) to carry over.vanquish
English
Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
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.