Crossword clues for overcame
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overcome \O`ver*come"\, v. t. [imp. Overcame; p. p. Overcome; p. pr & vb. n. Overcoming.] [AS. ofercuman. See Over, Come, and cf. Supervene.]
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To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
--Spenser. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.]
--J. Philips.-
To come or pass over; to spread over. [Obs.]
And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
--Shak.Syn: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow; overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate; beat; surmount. See Conquer.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: overcome)
WordNet
adj. rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work" [syn: flooded, inundated, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed]
[also: overcame]
v. win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" [syn: get the better of, defeat]
get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" [syn: get over, subdue, surmount, master]
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake]
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" [syn: get the best, have the best]
[also: overcame]
See overcome
Usage examples of "overcame".
Terrors, which she neither endeavoured to examine, or combat, overcame her, and she told La Motte she had rather remain exposed to the unwholesome dews of night, than encounter the desolation of the ruins.
I wondered if a vibrant personality overcame the basic ugliness of features.
Firmly she overcame her feelings of nervousness and gave him her hand.
He overcame his thickened throat and added his cheers to the prolonged accolade.
Tee dragged her torso down, and they locked their arms around one another, kissing ears and neck and parted lips as passion overcame them.
Then a yawn overcame him and he crawled back into his bunk, fitting his legs between the sleeping 'Dinis.
Their guide explained that this amenity eased aching muscles, overcame space nausea, and was an economical substitute for a water bath since the fluid could be purified after every use.
Surprised, she saw only his fist before a stunning blackness overcame her.
She crawled out of the water and a few more meters from the pounding surf before oblivion overcame her.
Rastancil whispered, staring at the human debris, crumpled in small heaps, though some had managed to lie flat before the drug overcame them.
It would be his to Hold when he came of age or when his guardian, Lord Lytol, former weaver-journeyman, former dragonrider, decided that he was wise enough-that is, if the other Lord Holders finally overcame their objections to his inadvertent Impression of the half-sized dragon, Ruth.
But then her brain overcame her emotions, and Salina realized that Lorana stood to lose her own dragon, too, long before her time.
He was a man whose passions often overcame his reason, and, for a time, silenced his conscience.
She awoke free from fever, and with no other disorder than weakness, which, in a few days, she overcame so well, as to be able to set out with La Motte for B——-, a village out of the great road, which he thought it prudent to quit.
The affectionate endearments of her only son, whom, from the danger of his situation, and the obscurity of hers, she might reasonably fear never to see again, arose upon her memory and overcame her fortitude.