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[ verb ] win a victory over
Synonyms Examples "You must overcome all difficulties" "defeat your enemies" "He overcame his shyness" "She conquered here fear of mice" "He overcame his infirmity" "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New_York 's '51 Giants , who dropped 11 of their first 13 . (The Providence Journal...)Not altogether a successful play , `` Epitaph_for_George_Dillon '' overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in a lesser work might be crippling . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He was n't troubled with the ordinary , rank-and-file fear that overcomes and paralyzes and sends individual soldiers and whole companies under_fire running in panic . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)How could the rich , for whom life was made so simple , ever understand the subterfuges , the lies , the frauds , the errors , sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life ? (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)It was at that party that , finally overcoming my timidity , inspired by tales only half understood and overheard among older boys , I asked Jessie to spend New_Year's_Eve with me . |
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[ verb ] get on top of; deal with successfully
Examples "He overcame his shyness" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)The statement did not mention what steps might be taken to overcome the legal obstacles to desegregation . (Alfred Wright, "A Duel Golfers Will Never Forget"...)A_lot_of people were still thinking_about Jack_Nicklaus , the spectacular young amateur , who had a 70 ; or Ken_Venturi , who had a somewhat shaky 72 but was bound_to do better ; or Rosburg , whose accurate short game and supersensitive putter can overcome so many_of Augusta 's treacheries ; or even old Byron_Nelson , whose excellent 71 made one wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf . (Anne McCaffrey, "The Ship Who Sang," 7th...)But `` singing '' for any shell person posed considerable technical difficulties to be overcome . Related terms |
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[ verb ] overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
Synonyms Used in print (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)The events of the last quarter of an hour , mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard , had overcome the doctor 's hen and she gave_out a series of cackly wails , perhaps mourning her nest , but briefly enjoyed . |
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[ adjective ] decisively defeated in combat
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[ adjective ] rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something
Synonyms Examples "a desk flooded with applications" "felt inundated with work" "too much overcome to notice" "a man engulfed by fear" "swamped by work" Related terms |
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[ verb ] overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
Synonyms Examples "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
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