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overtake English

Meaning overtake meaning

What does overtake mean?
Definitions in simple English

overtake Verb

— To overtake is to catch up to and then pass or do better than something. He had to really increase his speed to overtake her car on the freeway. There was an overtaking lane on the road to allow cars to get passed the slow moving trucks going up the hills. — If something overtakes you, you are not ready, you are surprised, and overwhelmed by it. The government's reforms were overtaken by the mass demonstrations which called for big changes in the laws.

overtake

— verb (= catch, catch up with) catch up with and possibly overtake The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp — verb (= pass) travel past The sports car passed all the trucks — verb (= overcome) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Synonyms overtake synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as overtake?

overtake English » English

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Topics overtake topics

What do people use overtake to talk about?
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Move past, over, through
Physical actions Move Accompany

Follow

Conjugation overtake conjugation

How do you conjugate overtake?

overtake · verb

Examples overtake examples

How do I use overtake in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you hurry, you will soon overtake her.
I don't dare to overtake.
A cart with four horses is not able to overtake the human tongue.
There is no hawk, or eagle, or any other bird, swift as may be his flight, that can overtake me.
We could not overtake him.

Movie subtitles

Their soldiers are still talking about their pursuit to overtake him and shuddering at the memory.
Overtake them, Jennings!
Overtake them!
I wish we could go so fast that no power on earth could overtake us!
You can't overtake him.
For years, we've watched this situation overtake us and we've done nothing to stop it.
If I am to overtake Natividad, I must ask you to leave at once.
Don't try to fight if pirates overtake you.
And may the revenge of the dead never overtake us.
If we could overtake him, he would hang.
You can't overtake 'em tonight before they get to San Marcos Pass.
With the woman, they can overtake us.
Your mama has a long head start on me. and I don't think anybody's gonna overtake her.
Overtake him!
We oughta overtake those settlers in a week or so.
We'll have to make better time or they'll overtake us.
Longley! If I am to overtake Natividad, I must ask you to leave at once. Adios.
Don't overtake!
It will, through progress, catch up with, and even overtake, other nations.
I can overtake any American car.
I won't have that jalopy overtake me.
He's getting ready to overtake again.
Quick, overtake that car!
Overtake that Peugeot!
And if we could overtake her, I'm sure we could get a friendly introduction to her people.
The first car would overtake the van at high speed and stop in front of it to cut it off.
Estimate it will overtake us in two minutes, sir.
Overtake.
Pursue and overtake.
Even if I got a lead, he'd overtake me soon enough.
I was ordered to overtake Your Excellency.
I hope to overtake my dispatches at my h.q.
They don't scare us. We have to overtake them.
Oh, don't worry, I'll probably overtake you.
Why - wait until they got old to overtake them sad and decaying?

News and current affairs

This year or next, China will overtake the US as the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter - on a national, rather than a per capita basis, of course.
In the late 1950's, after the Soviet Union launched the first spacecraft, eminent Western economists predicted that Soviet income would overtake that of the United States in a few decades.
The leading introductory economic textbook of the time, by Nobel laurate Paul Samuelson, was still predicting that Russia might overtake the US as the world's largest economy.
But India's fiscal position remains challenging, and the country's population, which will soon overtake China's, remains mostly rural and impoverished.
The investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that the dollar size of the Chinese economy will overtake that of Britain and Germany by 2007.
The data also revealed that China would overtake the US as the world's largest economy in PPP terms sometime in 2014 - a shift that, according to our estimates, occurred on October 10th.
By 2017, India could surpass Italy and Brazil to become the world's seventh largest economy; by 2020, there is a reasonable chance that it will overtake France and the United Kingdom to become the fifth largest.
Whether or not they overtake the US, however, one thing is certain: China's neighbor and regional geopolitical rival, India, will be lucky to win even a single medal.
So much for precise forecasts of the date when China will overtake the US as the world's largest economy; we won't even know for sure when it happens!
But, having seen this condition overtake my mother and my aunt - both vibrant, intelligent women, who were reduced to lying, unresponsive, in a bed for months or (in my aunt's case) years - it seems to me entirely accurate.
Drug trafficking or other illegal activities can overtake the whole government, turning it from despotism to international organized crime.
Twenty years ago, we were gripped by fear that Japan would overtake our economic leadership - a concern that was unfounded then and, in hindsight, looks profoundly mistaken.
So, is the idea that India's economy could overtake China's hopeless romanticism?
China is on course, this year or next, to overtake the United States as the world's largest CO2 emitter, even though its per capita emissions are only one-fifth or even less of the US level.
At a time when poverty threatens to overtake hundreds of millions of people, especially in the least developed parts of the world, we need the promise of prosperity.
Nikita Khrushchev famously boasted in 1959 that the Soviet Union would overtake the US by 1970, and by 1980 at the latest.
Consider the rise of China and India. The investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that the dollar size of the Chinese economy will overtake that of Britain and Germany by 2007.
Europe or China are unlikely to overtake the Americans in the next two decades.
America's economy seemed to be tanking, Japan's was soaring, and projections favored 2005 as the date when it would overtake the United States.
It is expected that their economies will overtake those of the G-7 by 2030, and that, by 2050, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and Russia will, with the US, be the worlds' dominant economies.
China's economy is growing more rapidly, and its total size will probably overtake Japan's in a decade or two, but any serious analysis of power in East Asia must include Japan as a major factor.
And yet they do not often overtake one another, because the distances between them are so large.

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