transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To catch up with; draw even or level with.

transitive verb. To pass after catching up with.

transitive verb. To come upon unexpectedly; take by surprise.

noun. The act or fact of overtaking.

To come up with in traveling the same way, or in pursuit (with or without the idea of passing the person or thing overtaken); catch up with in any course of thought or action.

To take by surprise; come upon unexpectedly; surprise and overcome; carry away.

Hence To overpower the senses of.

Specifically, to overcome with drink; intoxicate: chiefly in the past participle.

transitive verb. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion

transitive verb. To surpass in production, achievement, etc..

transitive verb. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

transitive verb. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.

transitive verb. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events.

verb. To pass a more slowly moving object.

verb. To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.

verb. To become greater than something else

verb. To occur unexpectedly

verb. catch up with and possibly overtake

verb. travel past

verb. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

"Or could the chap who nabbed the Tour de France title overtake them both?"

take over  

attend  befall  booze up  boozify  capture  

overtaken  overtook  

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