Crossword clues for overtaken
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. Overtook; p. p. Overtaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking.]
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To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of.
Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good.
--Gen. xliv. 4.He had him overtaken in his flight.
--Spenser. 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.
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To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
If a man be overtaken in a fault.
--Gal. vi. 1I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.
--Shak. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.]
--Holland.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.
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of overtake English)
WordNet
v. catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp" [syn: catch, catch up with]
travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks" [syn: pass, overhaul]
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome]
See overtake
Usage examples of "overtaken".
His hungry brethren cannot, without a sense of their own injustice, extort from the hunter the game of the forest overtaken or slain by his personal strength and dexterity.
She mounted the fleetest of her dromedaries, ^72 and had already reached the banks of the Euphrates, about sixty miles from Palmyra, when she was overtaken by the pursuit of Aurelian's light horse, seized, and brought back a captive to the feet of the emperor.
Their prince, with five attendants, was overtaken by Asbad, of the race of the Gepidae.
No sooner was the pursuit abated than the two fugitives issued from the rock, and mounted their camels: on the road to Medina, they were overtaken by the emissaries of the Koreish.
But it was in vain that the camels of Abu Sophian explored a new road through the desert and along the Euphrates: they were overtaken by the diligence of the Mussulmans.
The flier underneath -- or being overtaken -- or nearer to wall -- or turning counterclockwise, in that order, has the right of way.
I had had a hard day and, despite a brilliant performance, the inevitable disaster had overtaken me.
What the pirate did not know was that the Steed captain sought to be overtaken, for when the brigantine was close at hand he revealed the bank of heavy guns whose fire tore away the superstructure of the pirate ship.
These were days he would treasure, when whole new fields of knowledge were opening up, when he had some appreciation of the mournful tragedy which had overtaken these good families, and when he tended the Steed baby, who rarely cried and seemed to enjoy being with him.
Whilst he was there he was overtaken by a tedious illness, and consequently arrived in Rome much later than was expected.
The same misfortune has overtaken them which was so disastrous to us, they are being deserted by their allies as we were by the Celtiberians, and the army which proved so fatal to my father and my uncle they have split up into separate bodies.
At the same time he felt that he ought not to depend too much upon them, for if they changed sides it might lead to the same disaster as that which had overtaken his father and his uncle.
The victors, wearied with slaughter more than with fighting, were at last overtaken by the night.
Hearing of the disaster which had overtaken their neighbours the townsmen had time to close their gates and man their walls so that they might, at all events, be able to stand a siege and send a message to the Roman praetor before the final assault.
When the disaster that had overtaken a friendly city was announced to him, he determined, as he was too late to save it, to do the next best thing and avenge it.