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Verb: overtake (overtook,overtaken)  `owvur'teyk
  1. Catch up with and possibly overtake
    - catch, catch up with
     
  2. Travel past
    - pass, overhaul
     
  3. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    - overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm [archaic], overcome

Derived forms: overtaking, overtook, overtaken, overtakes

See also: overtaking

Type of: advance, arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, go on, kindle, march on, move on, pass on, progress, provoke, raise