Overcome

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  • intransitive verb. To defeat (another) in competition or conflict.
  • intransitive verb. To deal with successfully; prevail over; surmount.
  • intransitive verb. To overpower, as with emotion; affect deeply.
  • intransitive verb. To surmount opposition; be victorious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Overpowered by liquor; intoxicated: in the past participle.
  • To come over; move or pass over or throughout.
  • To reach or extend over or throughout; spread over; cover; overflow; surcharge.
  • To overtake.
  • To overwhelm; oppress; overpower; surmount; conquer; vanquish; subdue.
  • To get beyond; outstrip; excel.
  • Synonyms Vanquish, Subdue, etc. See conquer.
  • To gain the superiority; be victorious; conquer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue.
  • transitive verb. To overflow; to surcharge.
  • transitive verb. To come or pass over; to spread over.
  • intransitive verb. To gain the superiority; to be victorious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
  • verb. To win (a battle).
  • verb. To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
  • verb. To overwhelm with emotion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  • verb. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
  • verb. win a victory over
  • verb. get on top of; deal with successfully
  • Word Usage
    "Then he went into the room, where his family had assembled, with joyous heart and shining face, and raising both hands, and lifting his eyes heavenward, exclaimed, "_We have overcome, we have overcome_.""
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat  beat out  crush  shell  trounce  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affected  all up with  beat  beaten  best  
    variant
    overcame  
    verb-form