different between vanquish vs overbear

English

Etymology

From Middle English venquysshen, vaynquisshen, borrowed from a conjugated form of Old French veincre, from Latin vinc?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væ?kw??/

Verb

vanquish (third-person singular simple present vanquishes, present participle vanquishing, simple past and past participle vanquished)

1. To defeat, to overcome.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     This bold assertion has been so fully vanquish'd in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.

Related terms

• convince
• evince
• victor

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- +? bear.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v??b??/

Verb

overbear (third-person singular simple present overbears, present participle overbearing, simple past overbore, past participle overborne)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To carry over. [10th-14th c.]
2. (transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].

4. (intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• overbearing