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US
/ˈoʊvɝˌteɪk/
]
[ UK /ˌəʊvətˈeɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌəʊvətˈeɪk/ ]
VERB
-
catch up with and possibly overtake
The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp -
travel past
The sports car passed all the trucks - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
How To Use overtake In A Sentence
- The former Olympic champion may now have been overtaken, but a debt of gratitude is owed to her by the vibrant new star of her sport. Times, Sunday Times
- Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
- I accelerated to overtake the bus.
- Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
- Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.
- This raises the question of when one will overtake the other. Times, Sunday Times
- The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
- While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
- He was overtaken on the final lap.
- The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
