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Overcome

Overcome Meaning & Definition
Overcome Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Overcome?

[adj] decisively defeated in combat
[adj] rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work"
[v] overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
[v] win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"
[v] get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
[v] overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Synonyms | Synonyms for Overcome: beaten | conquered | defeated | engulfed | flooded | get the best | have the best | inundated | overpower | overpowered | overtake | overthrown | overwhelm | overwhelmed | powerless | routed | swamped | sweep over | vanquished | weak | whelm

Related Terms | Find terms related to Overcome: affected | all up with | beat | beaten | best | bested | better | blind | blind drunk | blotto | break | broken-down | brokenhearted | cap | confounded | conquer | crush | crushed | cut up | dash | dashed | deck | defeat | defeated | demoralize | demoralized | desolated | discomfited | done for | done in | down | drown | drub | exceed | excel | fallen | fixed | floor | floored | go one better | heartbroken | heart-stricken | heart-struck | helpless | hors de combat | hurdle | improve on | influenced | inundated | knock down | knock over | lambasted | lathered | lick | licked | master | moved | neurasthenic | on the skids | out | out cold | outdone | outlive | outweigh | overbalance | overbear | overborne | overexcited | overmaster | overmastered | overmatch | overmatched | overpass | overpower | overpowered | overridden | overset | overthrow | overthrown | overtop | overturn | overturned | overwhelm | overwhelmed | overwrought | panicked | paralyzed | passed out | perfect | predominate | preponderate | prevail | prevail over | prostrate | prostrated | psych out | put to rout | reduced to jelly | rise above | rout | routed | ruined | scattered | send flying | settled | shake | shaken | shot | shot to pieces | silence | silenced | skinned | skinned alive | speechless | stampeded | stiff | stoned | stricken | subdue | subdued | subjugate | suppress | surmount | surpass | throw | top | tower above | tower over | transcend | trimmed | trip | trip up | triumph | triumph over | trounced | trump | unbrace | under the table | undo | undone | unglued | unman | unmanned | unnerve | unnerved | unstring | unstrung | upset | vanquish | whelm | whelmed | whip | whipped | win | worst | worsted

See Also | arouse | beat | beat out | benight | bulldog | clutch | come through | conquer | crush | defeat | demolish | destroy | devastate | down | elicit | enkindle | evoke | expel | fire | get hold of | get over | kill | kindle | knock out | lock | lurch | make it | master | nose | overcome | provoke | pull round | pull through | raise | rout | rout out | seize | shell | skunk | stagger | subdue | surmount | survive | trounce | upset | vanquish | wallop

Overcome In Webster's Dictionary

\O`ver*come"\, v. t. [imp. {Overcame}; p. p. {Overcome}; p. pr & vb. n. {Overcoming}.] [AS. ofercuman. See {Over}, {Come}, and cf. {Supervene}.] 1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. --Spenser. 2. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] --J. Philips. 3. To come or pass over; to spreads over. [Obs.] And overcome us like a summer's cloud. --Shak. Syn: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow; overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate; beat; surmount. See {Conquer}.
\O`ver*come"\, v. i. To gain the superiority; to be victorious. --Rev. iii. 21.

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