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Verb(1) catch up with and possibly overtake,travel past,overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli,catch; pass(2) catch up with and possibly overtake(3) travel past(4) overcome(5) as with emotions or perceptual stimuli(6) catch; pass

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(1) Tourism is doing pretty well in Mauritius, too, and is set to overtake sugar as the country's most important industry.(2) You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.(3) Wait until it is safe to overtake , and then pass wide and slow.(4) Isn't it just so annoying when one lorry travelling at 60 mph tries to overtake another which is travelling at 58 mph?(5) While chipping at the landing is still the principal means of comminution, bundling is growing rapidly and could easily overtake roadside chipping within a few years.(6) Nobody in retailing underestimates the power of the card: its success undoubtedly helped Tesco to overtake Sainsbury as Britain's leading grocer.(7) In this, time was an indispensable ally: dictators might die, crops fail, disaster overtake an expedition; it all helps, given time.(8) Unfortunately, as happens so often to columnists who monitor current affairs at the global level, events overtake the best of intentions.(9) Now, if a daring driver decides to overtake the bus in front, he runs into trouble in uniform.(10) If I didn't, I feared panic would overtake me so badly that I really had no other choice but to try and go.(11) She is concerned that, unless things change fairly rapidly, a similar fate will overtake her own premises.(12) My driver then tries to overtake the truck at the same time.(13) Express bus drivers who don't overtake other buses, hence stopping unnecessarily at every stop.(14) Later that year he presented the Report on Manufactures, an ambitious plan to overtake Britain in industrial output.(15) A driver attempted to overtake them but couldn't complete the move, and pulled towards their SUV.(16) That's the key to what we have to do, is we have to maintain the ability to pass and overtake .
Related Words
(1) overtake
(2) take
(3) over
Synonyms
Verb
1. pass
2. outstrip
3. befall
4. overpower
5. overhaul
6. catch


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