Dictionary Entry
overtake
overtake is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
- 2transitive verb
To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
- 3transitive verb
Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
- 4verb
catch up with and possibly overtake
"The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
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- 5verb
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- 6verb
travel past
"The sports car passed all the trucks"
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