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overtake
[ oh-ver-teyk ]
verb (used with object)
- to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with:
By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- to catch up with and pass, as in a race; move by:
He overtook the leader three laps from the finish.
- to move ahead of in achievement, production, score, etc.; surpass:
to overtake all other countries in steel production.
- to happen to or befall someone suddenly or unexpectedly, as night, a storm, or death:
The pounding rainstorm overtook them just outside the city.
verb (used without object)
- to pass another vehicle:
Never overtake on a curve.
overtake
/ ˌəʊvəˈteɪk /
verb
- to move past (another vehicle or person) travelling in the same direction
- tr to pass or do better than, after catching up with
- tr to come upon suddenly or unexpectedly
night overtook him
- tr to catch up with; draw level with
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- uno·ver·taken adjective
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Example Sentences
Their role, Sudani said, is not to overtake the Iraqi military but to help it.
Uganda has intervened on the side of the Government of South Sudan, including providing air support to overtake opposition forces.
This year, as CNBC reports, technology could overtake apparel as the go-to gift.
If the recount would have continued on Dec. 9, Gore would not have picked up enough overvotes to overtake Bush.
When he finally goes to see a dentist, he learns that he has an abscess: the tooth is rotten, threatening to overtake his jaw.
On the broken porch of the abandoned house Amy stopped and waited for her chum to overtake her.
In tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.
The laws of the Church of God remain immutable, amid the changes that overtake the various communities of men.
Walk while ye have the light that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Moreover, he continued his swift course, always approaching and tending to overtake the slower bodies that preceded him, viz.
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