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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At first she seemed overcome with amazement; then tears flowed from her wondering eyes; and then she smiled sunnily through them, and one of her arms slid tenderly about the broker’s neck.
Arnold: I want to thank you for your most kind and opportune aid to my daughter last Friday evening, when she was overcome by an attack of her old heart-trouble in the conservatory at Mrs.
But it did look so beautiful, Marilla, when I pinned it on my breast that I was overcome by an irresistible temptation.
She understood that she would have trouble in overcoming it; but she resolved wisely to say nothing more just then.
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