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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To catch up with; draw even or level with.
  2. v. To pass after catching up with.
  3. v. To come upon unexpectedly; take by surprise: geopolitical strategists who were overtaken by events in southeast Asia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. To take by surprise; come upon unexpectedly; surprise and overcome; carry away.
  3. Hence To overpower the senses of.
  4. Specifically, to overcome with drink; intoxicate: chiefly in the past participle.
  5. n. The act or fact of overtaking.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To pass a more slowly moving object.
  2. v. To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
  3. v. economics To become greater than something else
  4. v. To occur unexpectedly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion to catch up with and move ahead of.
  2. v. To surpass in production, achievement, etc..
  3. v. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
  4. v. obsolete Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
  5. v. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. catch up with and possibly overtake
  2. v. travel past
  3. v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Etymologies

  1. over- +‎ take (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Or could the chap who nabbed the Tour de France title overtake them both?”

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

  • “Shall not his word overtake you though ministers that speak unto you will not live for ever?”

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

  • “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”

    The Imperialist

  • “What gets Washington all jammed up is when ideology and labels overtake what is the clear reality of a circumstance.”

    Presidents Remarks After Crime Bill Passage

  • “And, helped by this widgetisation, mobile devices will perhaps overtake the computer as the principal vehicle for connectivity - overtake, that is, in those parts of the world where they have not reigned all along.”

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS

  • “I don't understand the fact that if there are no jobs out there and the RepubliCAN'Ts are campaigning that when they 'overtake' the House and the Senate in 2010, they will bring JOBS back, correct the economy, cut taxes for the Rich, etc.”

    33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits

  • “But sometimes you see his southern roots in Texas and his experience in Alabama kind of overtake him, and he seems to think the United States is one big-ass Texas.”

    Karl Rove in a Corner

  • “And yet, he let his private life just kind of overtake him.”

    CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2003

  • “The two balls are thus being played around in the same direction, following each other; and one of the main features of the game is to have a ball "overtake" that of its opponents.”

    Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

  • “The objects of the game are (1) to complete the round of tossing and catching quicker than the opponents; (2) to "overtake" or outdistance the bag or ball which the opponents are tossing.”

    Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

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Words with the same meaning

  1. discover
  1. surprise
  1. capture
  1. overcome
  1. catch
  1. overhaul

reverse dictionary (44)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. benight
  2. overtook
  3. meet
  4. ensue
  5. consecute
  6. to catch up with
  7. forhale
  8. forlent
  1. torpedo-catcher
  2. of-take
  3. overcatch
  4. overget
  5. overhend
  6. overnim
  7. subsecute
  8. atake
  1. bestorm
  2. attain
  3. to come up with
  4. draw
  5. follow
  6. pursual
  7. pursuer
  8. pursuing
  1. catch
  2. chase
  3. pursue
  4. overhaul
  5. overtake
  6. pursuit
  7. outcatch
  8. catch up with
  1. chaser
  2. following
  3. overhent
  4. win
  5. fetch
  6. orra
  7. overcome
  8. overreach
  1. staghound
  2. gather
  3. visit
  4. winter

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