Overcomes
[,əuvə'kʌmz]
Examples
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate--nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As it is impossible to make a perfectly round ball and have the weight equally distributed, the ball can not roll true; an ingenious device overcomes the difficulty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And you seem to have so little feeling for me, and keep bringing it up to me so carelessly,--when you know how it overcomes me! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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