overtake
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#OVERTAKECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#OVERTAKE overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#OVERTAKE overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#OVERTAKE oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + takeCategory:English terms prefixed with over-#TAKE.
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- (noun)
- Rhymes: -eɪkCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪk#OVERTAKECategory:Rhymes:English/eɪk/3 syllables#OVERTAKE
- Hyphenation: o‧ver‧take
Verb
overtake (third-person singular simple present overtakes, present participle overtaking, simple past overtook, past participle overtaken)Category:English lemmas#OVERTAKECategory:English verbs#OVERTAKECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with entries#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with 2 entries#OVERTAKE
- To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
- Synonym: forge
- Antonym: undertake (“to pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside”)Category:English links with redundant wikilinks#OVERTAKECategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#OVERTAKE
- The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.Category:English terms with usage examples#OVERTAKE
- The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.Category:English terms with usage examples#OVERTAKE
- 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 4th (Aldborough, Suffolk), pages 176–177:
- "I won't over-walk myself," he said, cheerfully. "If the coach doesn't overtake me on the road, I can wait for it where I stop to breakfast. Dry your eyes, my dear; and give me a kiss."Category:English terms with quotations#OVERTAKE
- 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
- The station is planned to include platform loops enabling fast trains to overtake slower ones and is expected to be served by at least four trains per hour towards London.Category:English terms with quotations#OVERTAKE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#OVERTAKE) To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc.
- Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south.Category:English terms with usage examples#OVERTAKE
- To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.
- Our plans were overtaken by events.Category:English terms with usage examples#OVERTAKE
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, / And make me trauaile forth vvithout my cloake, / To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my vvay, / Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.Category:English terms with quotations#OVERTAKE
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Noun
overtake (plural overtakes)Category:English lemmas#OVERTAKECategory:English nouns#OVERTAKECategory:English countable nouns#OVERTAKECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with entries#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with 2 entries#OVERTAKE
- 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#OVERTAKE
Anagrams
Category:English heteronyms#OVERTAKE Category:English heteronyms#OVERTAKECategory:English irregular verbs#OVERTAKENorwegian Nynorsk
Verb
overtake (present tense overtek, past tense overtok, past participle overteke, passive infinitive overtakast, present participle overtakande, imperative overtak)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#OVERTAKECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#OVERTAKECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with entries#OVERTAKECategory:Pages with 2 entries#OVERTAKE
Category:Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs#OVERTAKECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk class 6 strong verbs#OVERTAKE- alternative form of overtaka