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Vanquish vs Overbear - What's the difference?

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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)
  • To defeat, to overcome.
  • * Clarendon
  • They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
  • * Atterbury
  • This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.

    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