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Noun overtaking has 1 sense
- passing, overtaking - going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"
--1 is a kind of reordering
Verb overtake has 3 senses
- overtake, catch, catch up with - catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- pass, overtake, overhaul - travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
--2 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentence:
These cars won't overtake
- overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
--3 is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
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