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Overtake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To catch up with; draw even or level with.

v. To pass after catching up with.

v. To come upon unexpectedly; take by surprise: geopolitical strategists who were overtaken by events in southeast Asia.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To pass a more slowly moving object.

v. To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.

v. To become greater than something else

v. To occur unexpectedly

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion

v. To surpass in production, achievement, etc..

v. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

v. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.

v. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To come up with in traveling the same way, or in pursuit (with or without the idea of passing the person or thing overtaken); catch up with in any course of thought or action.

To take by surprise; come upon unexpectedly; surprise and overcome; carry away.

Hence To overpower the senses of.

Specifically, to overcome with drink; intoxicate: chiefly in the past participle.

n. The act or fact of overtaking.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. catch up with and possibly overtake

v. travel past

v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Word Usage

"It may be realized that in spite of its air of being impossible to "overtake" -- I must, in this connection, continue to quote its mistress -- there was an attractiveness about the dwelling of the"

Verb Form

overtaken overtakes overtaking overtook

Cross Reference

take over

Variant

overtaken overtook

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

discover surprise capture overcome catch overhaul