overcome
/ˌoʊ.vəɹˈkʌm/ verb B1- To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
- To prevail.
- To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.
- To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc. · to overcome enemies in battle
- To come or pass over; to spread over. · I was overcome with anger.
He/she/it overcomes · Past overcame · Past participle overcome · -ing form overcoming
Verb forms
- Base form
- overcome
- He/she/it
- overcomes
- Past
- overcame
- Past participle
- overcome
- -ing form
- overcoming
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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She understood that she would have trouble in overcoming it; but she resolved wisely to say nothing more just then.
“My dear father,” said Villefort, “I am, on the contrary, delighted; but I so little expected your visit, that it has somewhat overcome me.”
“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.
Any other person would, perhaps, have been overcome by such an intoxicating draught of praise; but he feared to make for himself a mortal enemy of the police minister, although he saw that Dandré was irrevocably lost.
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