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Synonyms for overtake

Grammar : Verb
Spell : oh-ver-teyk
Phonetic Transcription : ˌoʊ vərˈteɪk

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Définition of overtake

Origin :
  • "to come up to, to catch in pursuit," early 13c., from over- + take (v.). According to OED, originally "the running down and catching of a fugitive or beast of chase"; it finds the sense of over- in this word "not so clear." Related: Overtaken; overtaking. Old English had oferniman "to take away, carry off, seize, ravish."
  • verb catch; pass
Example sentences :
  • The people with the cart could not overtake me, and I returned.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • If he walked fast he might yet overtake his friends ere they reached their destination.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • No horse that the stragglers have stolen can overtake Gypsy.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • I thought you'd get wool-gathering over some weed or another, and maybe I'd overtake you.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Judgment might overtake them there, as it might at home, in house or field.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • If I wanted such a fate to overtake him I should only have to let him alone.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
  • We had to stop several times and wait for Duncan to overtake us with his boat.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • “Perhaps by hurrying I may be able to overtake Dick,” was his thought.
  • Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
  • Please direct me how to go in order to overtake him, General Putnam.
  • Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
  • Nor was it difficult to overtake him, for he was going a foot-pace.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

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