Overtake

//oʊvɚˈteɪk// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

    "There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile."

Verb
  1. 1
    To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

    "The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn."

  2. 2
    catch up with and possibly overtake wordnet
  3. 3
    To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc. transitive

    "Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south."

  4. 4
    overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli wordnet
  5. 5
    To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

    "Our plans were overtaken by events."

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  1. 6
    travel past wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.

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