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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before sleep overtook us, we reflected on our last few days' climbing.
▪ In the reign of Boris Goldgather a great disaster overtook the Empire.
▪ Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen's attempt to outflank the fleeing families.
▪ The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life.
▪ There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste.
▪ This had all the makings of another long-running acrimonious dispute, when again wider political events quite unexpectedly overtook the controversy.
▪ Thorngumbald was once renowned for its Agriculture and Flower Show until costs and age overtook its original helpers.
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Overtook

Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. Overtook; p. p. Overtaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

    If a man be overtaken in a fault.
    --Gal. vi. 1

    I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.
    --Shak.

  4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

  5. 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
overtook

vb. (en-simple past of: overtake)

WordNet
overtake

  1. v. catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp" [syn: catch, catch up with]

  2. travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks" [syn: pass, overhaul]

  3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome]

  4. [also: overtook, overtaken]

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