overcome

I’m striving very hard to overcome it and now that I’m really thirteen perhaps I’ll get on better.”

A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good.

“Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her.