Overtake Definition

ōvər-tāk
overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, overtook
verb
overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, overtook
To catch up with and, often, go beyond.
Webster's New World
To pass after catching up with.
American Heritage
To come upon unexpectedly or suddenly.
A sudden storm overtook us.
Webster's New World
To render outmoded, irrelevant, invalid, etc.
A once cutting-edge analysis now overtaken by recent events.
Webster's New World

To pass a more slowly moving object.

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Origin of Overtake

  • over- +"Ž take

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Overtake Sentence Examples

  • With the bridges open, the threat she'd foreseen was going to overtake the human world.

  • Convinced of being divinely inspired, he had begun to see visions, and discovered in the Apocalypse symbols of the heavenly vengeance about to overtake this sin-laden people.

  • If from habit and tradition he respects a stranger within his threshold, he yet considers it legitimate to warn a neighbour of the prey that is afoot, or even to overtake and plunder his guest after he has quitted his roof.

  • Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.

  • To lack such care and tendance was - along with want of regular burial - the most dreadful fate that could overtake an ancient; and a Roman, like a Hindu, in case he was childless, adopted a male child whose duty it would be, as if his own son, to continue after his death the family rites or sacra.

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