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overcome English

Meaning overcome meaning

What does overcome mean?
Definitions in simple English

overcome Verb

— To overwhelm, especially with emotion. I was overcome with anger. — To surmount. She overcame all obstacles. — To win a battle or other contest. We shall overcome our enemies.

overcome

— verb (= get the better of, defeat) 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 — verb get on top of; deal with successfully He overcame his shyness — verb overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli — verb (= get the best) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome Heart disease can get the best of us

Synonyms overcome synonyms

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overcome English » English

defeat conquer subdue beat vanquish overpower win surmount overwhelm get over defeated triumph subjugate master win over surpass suppress overthrow get through cope with vanquished take seized overpowered overbear outdo destroy crush whip whelm weather trounce tide over tame succeed rise above quell pass lick humiliate have the best grip conquered triumph over take hold of sweep over subdued shell seize rout

Topics overcome topics

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Prevent
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat
Social behavior Behavior

Change behavior

Conjugation overcome conjugation

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overcome · verb

Examples overcome examples

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Simple sentences

I have overcome my fear.
Tom managed to overcome his financial problems.
Tom is determined to overcome obstacles in his life.
To overcome your problems, you sometimes have to face them.
You have to overcome the difficulties.
You must overcome the difficulties.
I owe it to my mother that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
The pioneers have overcome a series of obstacles.
He has overcome many obstacles.
She helped him overcome his sadness.
It isn't hard to overcome your weaknesses.
They can overcome their fear.
What is failure but humiliation, when it doesn't inspire the genius to overcome old barriers?
Tom was suddenly overcome by a great weariness.
I think that there are a number of serious difficulties that need to be overcome.
I'm living proof that death can be overcome.
We helped each other to overcome the difficulties.
The darkness has not overcome it.
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
He's still gotta overcome major difficulties.
Fatherland or death, we shall overcome.
He helped me to overcome the difficulties.
I cannot overcome my repugnance to eating snails.
How can I overcome this difficulty?

Movie subtitles

I always thought that each person had to overcome his own pains.
How were you able to overcome that contradiction?
Overcome it?
But I tell you: overcome temptation and uphold the law of chastity.
It is difficult to say how the weakened young Hutter was able to overcome all the obstacles of the trip home.
You cannot blame me if I overcome that obstacle.
My dear Lidia, I understand your motive perfectly but a woman like Anna is naturally subject to certain attentions from young men whose enthusiasms overcome their discretion.
It is impossible for honest people to read the bill of accusation against Dreyfus without being overcome with indignation and crying out their revulsion.
I'm overcome.
Suddenly, the orchestra bursts into a brilliant finale in which the hours of darkness are overcome by the hours of light.
Well, I'm still quite overcome!
It's probably the unexpectedness of it that has overcome you, Lady Lucas!
Am I supposed to feel flattered that you have so overcome your aversion to my family that you are ready to marry into it?
In order to overcome them, one must keep faith.
But Rains worked hard to overcome his problem.
Fulton recalled that on at least one occasion either the air supply developed a problem, or the summer heat along with the units lighting the set. In any case, something. The double was overcome and he fainted mid-scene.
I was a little boy overcome with admiration.
Forgive me, Mademoiselle. Never have I been so moved, so overcome.
And being overcome, you'll spout more banalities.
I'm quite overcome. Will you have a glass of water?
This latest type of training teaches him how to overcome any obstacle barring the path of his motorbike.
I ask you, is there one creature in all the world powerful enough to overcome that combination?
Once inside the castle, they plan to overcome the guard. raise the portcullis, lay siege to the castle. and be ready to meet you on your return.
That he can. - You see, science has overcome time and space. But Harvey has overcome not only time and space but any objections.
They've had some, you know, misunderstandings and trust issues, but I think that is what, you know, makes Scott and Allison so great to watch, because they overcome all these odds.
This can't continue, she needs to overcome those memories.
Lots of garlic. By the first kiss, you are overcome by the odor.
He is overcome.
It's the only way. to overcome Irene's stubbornness.
How can I overcome it?
You see, science has overcome time and space.

News and current affairs

The first hurdle has been overcome with the agreement on access to the enclave.
CFLs and other advances can take us part of the way, but there are massive technological hurdles to overcome before fossil fuels generally become less attractive than greener alternatives.
A few months of politics will never overcome a few centuries of sociology.
Moreover, countries like Ethiopia are making valiant, indeed remarkable, efforts to overcome their problems, despite the lack of adequate, and long-promised, help from the world's richest countries.
Why not start now to overcome the traditional tension between NATO and the EU - especially as French policy toward NATO under President Nicolas Sarkozy has been moving in the right direction?
He was a master at converting the complicated into the simple; and, rather than being paralyzed by complexity, he found new ways to deconstruct and overcome it.
Similarly, the gravity of weaker growth will most likely overcome the levitational effect on equity prices from more quantitative easing, particularly given that equity valuations today are not as depressed as they were in 2009 or 2010.
But the EU can overcome national impediments by developing exemplary universities and research centers that would be properly European, serving as an incentive to quality and reform at the national level.
But if she succeeds, she will have overcome a far longer legacy of discrimination.
It is more realistic to expect that the new Arab elites will make use of their states' authoritarian institutions, both to overcome resistance to their economic agendas and to consolidate their newly acquired power.
It has overcome tribal and party differences and created a de facto functioning government, with an impressive record on development issues such as education, irrigation, and construction - and, above all, with no violence.
These saving plans show that there are methods other than outright compulsion to overcome human inertia.
But America's inability after the Great War to overcome Old World politics at Versailles and isolationism at home marked a failed opportunity to promote a positive watershed.
The compact builds on the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which laid the framework for a democratic Afghanistan but left much to be done to overcome that war-torn country's tragic legacy.
I have no doubt that those involved were seeking a way forward that would allow for a full investigation and help overcome the political divisiveness currently undermining the Human Rights Council within the UN system.
The experience of other war crimes tribunals suggests that questions about political bias may take years to overcome.
As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.
The question now is whether Northeast Asia's Big Three leaders can overcome old positions, shake hands, and get serious about regional diplomacy.
Instead, it is taking steps to overcome the individual inertia that inhibits saving.
The reformers could not overcome conservative opposition, while the radicals could not defeat the domestic economic realities wrought by their foreign and nuclear policies.
At the same time, it could be argued that the spectacle of the opening ceremony was intended to overcome China's historic humiliation by the West and signal a new chapter.

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