overcome
VerbUS[oh-ver-kuhm]/ˈoʊvɚˌkʌm/3 syllables
Synonyms:
get the better ofdefeatget oversubduesurmountmasteroverwhelmoverpowersweep overwhelmovertakeget the best
Open English WordNet
Verb (4)overcame, overcomes, overcoming
- win a victory over“You must overcome all difficulties”“defeat your enemies”“He overcame his shyness”“He overcame his infirmity”“Her anger got the better of her and she blew up”Synonyms: get the better ofdefeatMore general winMore specific survive, surpass, wallop, demolish, conquer, rout, down, upset, lurch, nose +1 more
- get on top of; deal with successfully“He overcame his shyness”Synonyms: get oversubduesurmountmasterMore general beat, beat outMore specific bulldog
- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuliSynonyms: overwhelmoverpowersweep overwhelmovertakeMore general arouse, elicitMore specific lock, seize, knock out, kill, devastate, benight, stagger
- overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome“Heart disease can get the best of us”Synonyms: get the besthave the bestMore general beat, beat out
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Translations
Verb to surmount, get the better of
- Spanish
- superar
- French
- surmonter
- German
- bezwingen
- Italian
- superare
- Portuguese
- vencer
- Turkish
- yenmek
- Russian
- преодолева́ть preodolevátʹ
- Arabic
- غَلَبَ ḡalaba
- Chinese
- 克服 kèfú
- Japanese
- 乗り越える norikoeru
18 more languages
- Dutch
- overwinnen
- Polish
- przezwyciężyć
- Swedish
- övervinna
- Greek
- υπερνικώ ypernikó
- Korean
- 극복하다 geukbokhada
- Indonesian
- mengatasi
- Vietnamese
- vượt qua
- Hungarian
- felülkerekedik
- Portuguese (PT)
- vencer
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 克服 kèfú
- Albanian
- ngadhënjej
- Czech
- překonat
- Esperanto
- venki
- Finnish
- voittaa
- Romanian
- învinge
- Scottish Gaelic
- ceannsaich
- Serbo-Croatian
- savladavati
- Yiddish
- בײַקומען baykumen
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
O′ver·come′ transitive verb [past tense Overcame; past participle Overcome; p. pr & vb. n. Overcoming.]
Origin: AS. ofercuman. See Over, Come, and cf. Supervene.
1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.— Edmund Spenser
2. To overflow; to surcharge. obsolete John Philips
3. To come or pass over; to spread over. obsolete
And overcome us like a summer's cloud.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow; overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate; beat; surmount. See Conquer.
O′ver·come′ intransitive verb
To gain the superiority; to be victorious. Rev. iii. 21.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54