What's the difference between oversell and overswell?
Oversell
Definition:
(v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.
(v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion then turns to the problem of the overselling of rehabilitation and the observation that despite the powerful dependency needs and limited tolerance for stress of the mentally disabled, when attention is finally turned to them, neglect often gives way to unrealistic expectations of rehabilitation.
(2) It has been argued that while standardization has a number of advantages, we must be careful not to discourage the development of new procedures nor to oversell current assessment procedures.
(3) To compete, organisations oversell the vulnerability of their beneficiaries while conflating one-off interventions with transforming a life.
(4) Fiorina, standing beside former and serving governors, appeared unfazed by her lack of experience in politics and was clearly unafraid of overselling herself.
(5) It's clear that there has been an enormous overselling of numerous medical interventions – not just in mental health – with overdiagnosis and overtreatment led by an industry keen to get doctors to diagnose as many people as possible.
(6) It was regarded with suspicion by many yes voters who believed that the no campaign – labelled Project Fear – was overselling the impact on jobs should Scotland choose to become independent.
(7) Still, on this one occasion when writers and broadcasters and college sports fanatics were talking about witnessing one of the greatest endings they had ever seen in sports, period, they may not have been overselling the end to the 2013 Iron Bowl, the rivalry game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn University Tigers.
(8) The paradox can be explained by the high cost of medical care, the overselling of medicine's capabilities, the expectation that the physician will be both ultrascientific and as emphathic as yesterday's doctor, and little recognition that the curing of one illness in the elderly exposes this group to other disease.
(9) Apart from the choice of judges, the PR machine going way beyond its remit by overselling a priapic coke-user whom they then had to sack, being deserted by Simon Cowell and then, after various related kerfuffles, turned down by Cheryl Cole, and beaten demeaningly and unaccountably in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing , and not actually having quite enough people who could … sing … the song choices were the worse.
(10) Put all this together, and a picture emerges of academics overselling a simplistic argument that is conducive to ministers' yen for austerity and so gets further simplified for political purposes.
(11) If there's overselling going on, how can retailers and consumers work together to bring that under control?"
(12) We became fixated on output, overselling our impact to supporters.