overtake
/ˈoʊ̯vɚteɪ̯k/ noun C2- An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver. · There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.
Plural overtakes
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Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out “Courage!” held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailor, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them tomorrow.
This oath was no longer a vain menace; for the fastest sailor in the Mediterranean would have been unable to overtake the little tartan, that with every stitch of canvas set was flying before the wind to Leghorn.
Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.”
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