overtaken
/ˈəʊvəɹteɪkən/ adjective B2- Taken by surprise; overcome. · I was overtaken by events.
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For a moment the idea of struggling crossed his mind, and of so ending the unexpected evil that had overtaken him.
“And what would he have done had he overtaken us?”
She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her.
He had remained on that three-foot path, with sheer wall on one side and sheer drop on the other, until his enemy had overtaken him.
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