Synonyms for overtake
ˌoʊ vərˈteɪk

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1. overtake, catch, catch up with(verb)

   catch up with and possibly overtake

   "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, take in, overwhelm, make up, capture, beguile, get, sweep over, whelm, trip up, captivate, view, arrest, enamour, trance, fascinate, enamor, see, becharm, catch up with, watch, overhaul, pass, entrance, enchant, charm, pick up, overhear, catch, grab, overpower, overcome, take hold of, bewitch

2. pass, overtake, overhaul(verb)

   travel past

   "The sports car passed all the trucks"

   Synonyms:
   run, catch, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, occur, die, overwhelm, overcome, turn over, go, spend, slide by, fade, hand, modernize, legislate, happen, egest, catch up with, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, authorize, modernise, overpower, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, whelm, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, expire, overhaul, sweep over, go through, reach, communicate, come about, choke, pop off, go across, travel by, glide by, extend, decease, fall, pass, pass by, clear, exit, conk, excrete, buy the farm, pass along, snuff it, go along, surpass, guide, pass on

3. overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake(verb)

   overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

   Synonyms:
   surmount, catch up with, submerge, deluge, overmaster, overwhelm, overhaul, drown, overcome, get the best, catch, overpower, whelm, defeat, pass, get the better of, master, flood out, sweep over, have the best, get over, subdue

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1. overtake

   To catch is to come up with or take possession of something departing, fugitive, or illusive. We catch a runaway horse, a flying ball, a mouse in a trap. We clutch with a swift, tenacious movement of the fingers; we grasp with a firm but moderate closure of the whole hand; we grip or gripe with the strongest muscular closure of the whole hand possible to exert. We clasp in the arms. We snatch with a quick, sudden, and usually a surprising motion. In the figurative sense, catch is used of any act that brings a person or thing into our power or possession; as, to catch a criminal in the act; to catch an idea, in the sense of apprehend or comprehend. Compare ARREST.

   Synonyms:
   apprehend, capture, catch, clasp, clutch, comprehend, discover, ensnare, entrap, grasp, grip, gripe, lay hold of (on, upon), secure, seize, snatch, take, take hold of

   Antonyms:
   fail of, fall short of, give up, let go, lose, miss, release, restore, throw aside, throw away

   Preposition:
   To catch at a straw; to catch a fugitive by the collar; to catch a ball with the left hand; he caught the disease from the patient; the thief was caught in the act; the bird in the snare.

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1. overtake(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   catch, come up with

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1. List of paraphrases for "overtake":

   exceed

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How to use overtake in a sentence?

1. David Grayson:

   I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day

2. Fabio Meneghella:

   When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams. If you are born, you’re already a winner, in the Universe lap of your precious mother you’ve wrought millions of candidates to life. You’re already the chosen one, you’ve already flight one time. Now God ask you to make your last flight. Conquest your brothers’ brain, conquest Synaptic Paradise and you’ll conquest the eternity, and the real Paradise will open your eyes. A woman’s heart will accompany the passage of time, and it will be the symbol of your rebirth. To save the world, we don’t need an hero, but a good parent. You’re a memory, you’re reborn, the Earth will have you. You’re in my brain, you’ll fly over your brothers’ brain, like the Verb of God. This will be your Paradise, you’ll fly, because flying is believing!

3. Jose Munoz:

   I'm confident we will overtake them.

4. 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.

5. Og Mandino:

   Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

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