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Definition of Overtake

Overtake

  1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
  2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
  3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.

Overtake Quotations

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
Francois Rabelais

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch
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Overtake Translations

overtake in Afrikaans is verbysteek, verbygaan
overtake in Dutch is inhalen
overtake in French is distancons, doubler, rejoindre, distancent
overtake in Italian is sorpassare, a prendere
overtake in Latin is adipiscor
overtake in Portuguese is alcance
overtake in Spanish is adelantar, alcanzar, dar alcance

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