Crossword-Solution: OVERMATCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overmatch | v. t. | To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. |
| Overmatch | v. t. | To marry (one) to a superior. |
| Overmatch | n. | One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “OVERMATCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| be more than a match for | 1 answer |
| Outclass | 12 answers |
| Surpass | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERMATCH (5)
But when the pleasure becomes a business, and a matter of mere gain, there is more innocence, perhaps, in a perfect equality of antagonists--which games of chance, fairly played, always secure--than where one party is likely to be an overmatch for the other by his superior knowledge or ability.
But, with all their exertions, they would have effected little against a power which was an overmatch for any single adversary, however powerful.
Sylla, when he commanded Rome, raised Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla's overmatch.
This which I speak of, hath been nowhere better seen, than by comparing of England and France; whereof England, though far less in territory and population, hath been (nevertheless) an overmatch; in regard the middle people of England make good soldiers, which the peasants of France do not.
XIX Hard the task: your prison-chamber Widens not for lifted latch Till the giant thews and sinews Meet their Godlike overmatch.
Quotes with OVERMATCH (3)
The highest goodness is like water. Water is beneficial to all things but not contend. It stays in places which others despise. Therefore it is near Tao. The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and strong nothing proves better than water. For there is no alternative to it. The weak can overcome and the yielding can overcame the har…
One day Wallace was fishing in the Irvine when Earl Percy, the governor of Ayr, rode past with a numerous train. Five of them remained behind and asked Wallace for the fish he had taken. He replied that they were welcome to half of them. Not satisfied with this, they seized the basket and prepared to carry it off. Wallace resisted, and one of them drew his sword. Wallace seized the staff of his net and struck his opponent's sword from his hand; this he snatched up and stood o…
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1995–2012).