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Definition of Overtake
O`ver`take´ | v. t. | 1. | To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; | | 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. | | 4. | Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. | | 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. |
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