overtake
overtake Lexical Profile
overtake Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To catch up with and pass while traveling in the same direction (especially of a vehicle or runner).
"Always check your mirrors carefully before you overtake a cyclist on a narrow country lane."
To become greater, more successful, or more prominent than someone or something else in achievement, quantity, or development.
"Renewable energy sources are projected to overtake coal as the primary means of electricity generation."
To come upon or affect someone suddenly and powerfully (especially of misfortune, weather, or an emotion).
"A sudden wave of exhaustion overtook the hikers just as they reached the mountain shelter."
• Rhymes for overtake
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English overtaken, formed from the prefix over- and taken (from Old Norse taka, meaning 'to touch or seize').
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