Thesaurus: overtake

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1. v. t. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
2. v. t. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
3. v. t. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
4. v. catch up with and possibly overtake
5. v. travel past
6. v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
7. 1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser. 2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak. 3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.
8. v:100 v. catch up with and possibly overtake