Overcoming Synonyms and Antonyms

To affect deeply or completely, as with emotion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. engulfing
  2. prostrating
  3. overwhelming
  4. overpowering
  5. crushing
Get on top of; deal with successfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mastering
  2. surmounting
  3. subduing

Words Related to Overcoming

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.

Overcoming Sentence Examples

  • As the necessity of overcoming his enemies became urgent, this party became military.

  • The Protestants refused to attend an assembly where even the most conciliatory prelate could hardly condescend to meet them on equal terms. Nor was Pole allowed to use the only possible means of overcoming their reluctance.

  • This made Abbas Mirza at once seize upon the fortified places of Toprak Kalah and Ak Sarai within the limits of the Ottoman Empire, and, overcoming the insufficient force sent against him, he was further enabled to extend his inroads to Mush, Bitlis, and other known localities.

  • Neither these latter methods nor the willpower to stay awake have much effect in overcoming sleepiness.

  • Its moment is found by multiplying the normal pressure between the rolling surfaces by an arm, whose length depends on the nature of the rolling surfaces, and the work lost in a unit of time in overcoming it is the product of its moment by the angular velocity of the rolling surfaces relatively to each other.

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