Overtake Synonyms and Antonyms

ōvər-tāk
To come up even with another
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. catch up
To catch up with and move past
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overhaul
  2. pass
  3. catch
  4. approach
  5. catch up with
  6. reach
  7. apprehend
  8. get to
  9. attain
Antonyms:
  1. fall-behind
Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overwhelm
  2. overpower
  3. sweep over
  4. whelm
  5. overcome

Words Related to Overtake

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. seek
  2. win
  3. thwart
  4. outpace

Overtake Sentence Examples

  • With the bridges open, the threat she'd foreseen was going to overtake the human world.

  • Convinced of being divinely inspired, he had begun to see visions, and discovered in the Apocalypse symbols of the heavenly vengeance about to overtake this sin-laden people.

  • If from habit and tradition he respects a stranger within his threshold, he yet considers it legitimate to warn a neighbour of the prey that is afoot, or even to overtake and plunder his guest after he has quitted his roof.

  • Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.

  • To lack such care and tendance was - along with want of regular burial - the most dreadful fate that could overtake an ancient; and a Roman, like a Hindu, in case he was childless, adopted a male child whose duty it would be, as if his own son, to continue after his death the family rites or sacra.

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