What does overtake mean?

Definitions for overtake
ˌoʊ vərˈteɪkover·take

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. overtake, catch, catch up withverb

    catch up with and possibly overtake

    "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"

  2. pass, overtake, overhaulverb

    travel past

    "The sports car passed all the trucks"

  3. overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtakeverb

    overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

GCIDE

  1. Overtakeverb

    Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian.

  2. Overtakeverb

    To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events.

  3. Overtakeverb

    To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of.

Wiktionary

  1. overtakeverb

    To pass a more slowly moving object.

  2. overtakeverb

    To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.

    "I overtook and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

  3. overtakeverb

    To become greater than something else

  4. overtakeverb

    To occur unexpectedly

    "Our plans were overtaken by events."

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Overtakeverb

    Etymology: over and take.

    We durst not continue longer so near her confines, lest her plagues might suddenly overtake us before we did cease to be partakers with her sins. Richard Hooker.

    If I had given you this at over-night,
    She might have been o’ertaken; and yet she writes
    Pursuit would be but vain. William Shakespeare.

    I shall see
    The winged vengeance overtake such children. William Shakespeare.

    The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. Ex. xv. 9.

    My soul, more earnestly releas’d,
    Will out-strip hers, as bullets flown before
    A later bullet may o’ertake, the powder being more. John Donne.

    To thy wishes move a speedy pace,
    Or death will soon o’ertake thee in the chace. Dryden.

    How must he tremble for fear vengeance should overtake him, before he has made his peace with God? John Rogers.

    If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness. Gal. vi. 1.

Wikipedia

  1. overtake

    Overtaking or passing is the act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle, travelling in the same direction, on a road. The lane used for overtaking another vehicle is often a passing lane farther from the road shoulder which is to the left in places that drive on the right and to the right in places that drive on the left.

ChatGPT

  1. overtake

    To overtake generally means to catch up with and pass or move ahead of someone or something, often in a competitive manner. It can also mean to become greater than or more important than something else. The term is commonly used in contexts such as racing, business competition, or a situation where one thing surpasses another.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Overtake

    ō-vėr-tāk′, v.t. to come up with: to catch: to come upon: to take by surprise.—p.adj. Overtā′ken, fuddled.

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  2. take over

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of overtake in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of overtake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of overtake in a Sentence

  1. Fabio Meneghella:

    When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams.

  2. Helane Becker:

    They started as an overnight letter company. But even before there was email, Fred Smith correctly surmised that fax would overtake the overnight letter, you have to admire the tenacity with which Fred Smith's continued to stay ahead of the curve.

  3. Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid:

    This is how democracies die in the 21st century, they dont die because tanks overtake parliament, they die from the inside.

  4. Simon Hu:

    Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that's in customers, technology, or worldwide scale, amazon, Microsoft and others have already laid the groundwork for us by educating the markets about cloud in the U.S. and Europe, so we have an even better opportunity to join in the competition.

  5. Orison Swett Marden:

    If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

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