Synonym: conquer, defeat, drive off, frustrate, overpower, surmount, upset. Antonym: submit. Similar words: overcrowded, over and over, percolate, under control, over, cover, get over, go over. Meaning: [‚əʊvə(r)'kʌm] v. 1. win a victory over 2. get on top of; deal with successfully 3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli 4. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.
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181. Like Truman two decades earlier, Humphrey did his best to overcome the severe handicap of a badly split party.
182. The communication problem can be overcome in part through the use of interpreters.
183. They had to overcome engineering problems, a last-minute change of keel, and the withdrawal of their sponsor.
184. She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
185. Or even overcome a business relation-ship that includes an extended period of waiting.
186. But he could not overcome strong opposition from anti-abortion activists in the party.
187. Recent advances in remote sensing and computer based processing of digital imagery may overcome such problems.
188. Each school had to overcome numerous barriers to reform through the collective work of all the faculty.
189. With all these men, however,[www.Sentencedict.com] their egos are clearly strong enough to overcome any residual fear of the feminine.
190. Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.
191. Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire.
192. The proposals also aim to overcome the present problems relating to the independence, accountability and legal liability of external auditors.
193. Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur.
194. To see clues that others have overlooked, to face danger and overcome fear.
195. Like many other black families, his family had to struggle to overcome social and economic disadvantage.
196. People, especially when acting collectively, can come to break these barriers, overcome these constraints and reconstruct their social world.
197. These problems can be overcome by utilising assembly lines ie moving over to a mass production method. 17.
198. The book also shows how sensitive preparations and aftercare can help ministers overcome some of the difficulties of a funeral.
199. This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons.
200. It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.
201. Our technology and ability to cooperate in societies allows us to overcome many of the things that kill other mammals.
202. The problems of a poor wheat crop were overcome and record volumes were produced at both mills in the fourth quarter.
203. A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection.
204. Class Size: Cultural barriers can be overcome through close personal interaction.
205. People who have overcome extreme barriers deserve a reward and this is the reward I want.
206. But for once his famous ability to blend laughter and pain is overcome by the weight of his subject.
207. But in this age of fax machines and satellite communications many of these difficulties will be overcome.
208. Smith and Bryant could not overcome their opponents' vivid word images of immigrant families split asunder.
209. However, this does not in itself overcome the language problems which have arisen during the period of isolation.
210. He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
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