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   Overtake (?), v. t. [imp. Overtook (?); p. p. Overtaken (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking.]
   
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   1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of.
   
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   Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4.
   
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   He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser.
   
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   2. Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, “although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian”.
   
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   3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
   
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   If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1
   
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   The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak.
   
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   4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.]  Holland.
   
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   5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, “their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events”.
   
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