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overtake

1. [söz] ozmak [Umumy]

2. [işlik] ozup geçmek [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

overtake

v. t. ()

1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; ()

Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. (Gen. xliv. 4.)

He had him overtaken in his flight. (Spenser.)

2. To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian. ()

3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. ()

If a man be overtaken in a fault. (Gal. vi. 1)

I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. (Shak.)

4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. (Holland.)

5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events. ()