Synonym: catch, catch up with, overcome, overhaul, overpower, overwhelm, pass, sweep over, whelm. Similar words: undertake, take over, undertaking, overt, covert, poverty, over there, overturn. Meaning: [‚əʊvə(r)teɪk] v. 1. catch up with and possibly overtake 2. travel past 3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
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(31) It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider.
(32) Women overtake men only in the part- time registrar posts.
(33) Some are predicting that India could overtake China as the world's most populous country before 2050.
(34) The Clippers played better in the second half but couldn't overtake the Rockets and lost by eight points.
(35) Pressing the gas pedal to the floor, he swung the car out and began to overtake.
(36) At one stage the car raced along the hard shoulder to overtake other vehicles.
(37) According to police their car pulled out to overtake a caravan.
(38) There were crescents under his eyes like bruises, and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose.
(39) The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.
(40) Devastating crises may shortly overtake us, leading inevitably to a lapse into barbarism.
(41) If another competitor catches you up, they may overtake at a safe and suitable place, and you should give way.
(42) The object world falls back and away, and invasions from the unconscious overtake and overwhelm one.
(43) Other angry motorists blew their horns and flashed rude two-finger salutes when they finally managed to overtake him.
(44) He felt his nerve breaking and terror began to overtake his mind.
(45) In a wild chase the crews finally overtake a very old and crippled whale.
(46) These technological successes gave credibility to Khruschev's claims that Communist states could eventually overtake capitalist economic growth.
(47) I cut up articulated lorries, rashly overtake, and dash through traffic lights when they're more red than amber.
(48) Try that on several cars in the Escort-class, and you will sometimes watch the back of the car overtake the front.
(49) Unless farm fertilisation increases, atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, especially as nitrate, may well overtake deposition from land runoff.
(50) The locals go to suicidal lengths to overtake vehicles travelling only marginally slower than themselves.
(51) The shell would barely crawl forward, and certainly not overtake light.
(52) Rehearsals over, a certain degree of moodiness or silly humor would overtake him.
(53) It became more difficult for devout persons to explain why unforeseen disaster should overtake a religious group.
(54) Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul, it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
(55) Before you start to overtake, make sure the road is clear ahead of you.
(56) Desperate not to have to overtake, he'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously.
(57) And he desperately wants to overtake Hadlee before Border establishes a new record for Test runs.
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(58) It will overtake Commerce as the second-biggest federal office building in the land.
(59) I drove slowly up the road, not wishing to overtake the white police car.
(60) The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
More similar words: undertake, take over, undertaking, overt, covert, poverty, over there, overturn, over time, overture, make over, overthrow, extrovert, all over the world, incontrovertible, over and over, over and over again, make a mistake, pertain, take, certain, stake, take on, take out, takeoff, take in, take to, take up, take off, take for.