Overtaken Synonyms

Defeated
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. caught up with
  2. caught up to
  3. reached
  4. apprehended
Travel past
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. passed
  2. approached
  3. reached
  4. overhauled
  5. caught
  6. attained
  7. apprehended
Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overcome
  2. whelmed
  3. overpowered
  4. overwhelmed

Words Related to Overtaken

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.

Overtaken Sentence Examples

  • Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.

  • The linen trade introduced in the middle of the 18th century is extinct, and a like fate has overtaken the kelp and straw-plaiting industries.

  • Whilst pondering on the course he should follow, the marshal received the news of the awful disaster that had overtaken the emperor at Waterloo.

  • The great auk, once common on the British coasts, those of Denmark, the east coast of North America, then restricted to those of Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland, has been killed by man, and the same fate has overtaken the Labrador duck, the Phillip Island parrot, Nestor productus, and the large cormorant of FIG.

  • Thus he was for two years together at Caesarea in Cappadocia, where he was overtaken by the Maximinian persecution; here he worked at his recension of the Bible.

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