Overcome
[əʊvə'kʌm] or [,ovɚ'kʌm]
Definition
(verb.) get on top of; deal with successfully; 'He overcame his shyness'.
Checked by Kenneth--From WordNet
Definition
(p. p.) of Overcome
(v. t.) To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
(v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.
(v. t.) To come or pass over; to spreads over.
(v. i.) To gain the superiority; to be victorious.
Checker: Raffles
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Subdue, conquer, vanquish, subjugate, overthrow, overwhelm, overturn, overbear, overpower, overmaster, defeat, crush, beat, rout, discomfit, choke, get the better of, get the upper hand of.[2]. Surmount, rise above.
v. n. Prevail, conquer, gain the victory.
Inputed by Gerard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vanquish, {get_the_better_of}, surmount,[See_CONQUER]_, Overestimate,[SeeDISPARAGE]
Checker: Seymour
Definition
v.t. to get the better of: to conquer or subdue: (obs.) to spread over surcharge.—v.i. to be victorious.
Typed by Enid
Examples
- As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many efforts have been made to overcome this defect, but as yet with only partial success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had something which he thought would overcome us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To overcome the difficulty of getting past that monosyllable, I took it from her, and said, repeating it with emphasis, Well! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A very brief exercise of Mr. Sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In some cases, by relieving pain, they give the system the rest necessary for overcoming the cause of the pain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is occasioned by an unsettlement and it aims at overcoming a disturbance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To produce such a house involved the overcoming of many engineering and other technical difficulties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The only way of overcoming this difficulty was to have the answer brought to us from the lawyer's office by a special messenger. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is because water, in flowing from place to place, expends force in overcoming the friction of the pipes and the resistance of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Fred Lamb was waiting at the door, and his joy, on perceiving my carriage, overcame all his late vexation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But when he was summoned to surrender by a band of guerillas, his constitutional weakness overcame him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The name re-pronounced by his lips overcame me unaccountably. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was as if some subterranean dislike overcame them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- 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.
Editor: Upton