Supply will soon overtake demand.
Source: tatoeba (19283)
Overtake
//oʊvɚˈteɪk//
Synonyms for "overtake" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
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Related words (37)
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3 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesentails
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
91 translations across 41 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- καταλαμβάνω verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- φθάνω verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Arabic
2 entries- سَبَق verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- سَبَقَ verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Armenian
4 entries- աբգոն անել verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- առաջ անցնել verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- հասնել verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- վազանց անել verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Aromanian
2 entries- antrec verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- astrec verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ötmək verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Bulgarian
2 entries- догонвам verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- задминавам verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 賽過 /赛过 verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- 超 verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Danish
4 entries- indhente verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- overgå verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
- overhale verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- overraske verb (to occur unexpectedly take by surprise; surprise and overcome)
Dutch
1 entries- inhalen verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Esperanto
2 entries- atingi verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- preterpasi verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Finnish
4 entries- kasvaa suuremmaksi kuin verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
- muuttaa verb (to occur unexpectedly take by surprise; surprise and overcome)
- ohittaa verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- ohittaa verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
French
3 entries- doubler verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- dépasser verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- surprendre verb (to occur unexpectedly take by surprise; surprise and overcome)
Galician
2 entries- acadar verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- superar verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
German
4 entries- aufholen verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- überholen verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- überholen verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
- überraschen verb (to occur unexpectedly take by surprise; surprise and overcome)
Greek
1 entries- ξεπερνάω verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Hungarian
1 entries- előz verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Icelandic
1 entries- fara fram úr verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Irish
1 entries- tar suas verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Italian
4 entries- raggiungere verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- sopraffare verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
- sorpassare verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- sorprendere verb (to occur unexpectedly take by surprise; surprise and overcome)
Japanese
1 entries- 追い越す verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Khmer
1 entries- ផ្ដាច់ verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Korean
1 entries- 따라잡다 verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Ladin
1 entries- passé dant verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Latin
1 entries- adipiscor verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Lithuanian
1 entries- aplenkti verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Mongolian
4 entries- гүйцэх verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- нөхөх verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- төрөх verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- эзэмдэх verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Māori
4 entries- hipa verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- poki verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- popoki verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- taha verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kjøre forbi verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- passere verb (economics: to become greater than something else)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- køyre forbi verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Polish
2 entries- wyprzedzać verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- wyprzedzić verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Portuguese
1 entries- ultrapassar verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Romanian
2 entries- depăși verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- întrece verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Russian
2 entries- обгоня́ть verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- обогна́ть verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Slovak
4 entries- dobehnúť verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- dobiehať verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- predbehnúť verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- predbiehať verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Spanish
4 entries- adelantar verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- alcanzar verb (to catch up with, but not pass)
- rebasar verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- sobrepasar verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Swedish
1 entries- köra om verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Tamil
1 entries- முந்து verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Thai
1 entries- แซง verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Turkish
2 entries- geçmek verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- sollamak verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vượt verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- ǃkʻqáa verb (to pass a more slowly moving object)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
If you hurry, you will soon overtake her.
Source: tatoeba (30881)
If you hurry, you will overtake him.
Source: tatoeba (30902)
We could not overtake him.
Source: tatoeba (249193)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.