different between overcrow vs overbrow

English

Etymology

over- +? crow

Verb

overcrow (third-person singular simple present overcrows, present participle overcrowing, simple past and past participle overcrowed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take over.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2

     The potent poison quite overcrows my spirit

2. (obsolete, transitive) To crow over, as in triumph.

Anagrams

• crow over

English

Etymology

over- +? brow

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?b?a?/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)b?a?/

Verb

overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
   • 1852, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Woods in Winter", in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

     With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale

   • 18000, William Wordsworth, Michael

     Did with a huge projection overbrow
     Large space beneath.

References

overbrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.