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1. Win a victory over
   "You must overcome all difficulties"; "He overcame his shyness";
   - get the better of, defeat
    
2. Get on top of; deal with successfully
   "He overcame his shyness";
   - get over, subdue, surmount, master
    
3. Become filled with uncontrollable emotion or too much sensory input
   - overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm [archaic], overtake
    
4. Do better than or defeat, usually through no fault or weakness of the loser
   - get the best, have the best

Derived forms: overcame, overcoming, overcome, overcomes

Type of: arouse, beat, beat out, crush, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise, shell, trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Overcome