Words Like OVERTAKE
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to OVERTAKE.
    
    
    
        
            21 Alternative Words Similar to overtake
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        2 examples of overtake
           
        
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        although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian
    
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        their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of overtake
           
        
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        To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion
    
    
    
 
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        To surpass in production, achievement, etc..
    
    
    
 
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        To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
    
    
    
 
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        Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
    
    
    
 
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        To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events.
    
    
    
 
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        catch up with and possibly overtake
    
    
    
 
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        overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    
    
    
 
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        To catch up with; draw even or level with.
    
    
    
 
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        To pass after catching up with.