overtake

1. v. t. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Source: opted

2. v. t. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. Source: opted

3. v. t. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. Source: opted

4. v. catch up with and possibly overtake Source: wordnet

5. v. travel past Source: wordnet

6. v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

8. v:100 v. catch up with and possibly overtake Source: ecdict

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