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overtake的過去分詞
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p.
{Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtaking}.]
1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion;
to catch up with.
Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good. --Gen. xliv.
4.
He had him overtaken in his flight. --Spenser.
2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to
capture; to overcome.
If a man be overtaken in a fault. --Gal. vi. 1
I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such
children. --Shak.
3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken),
drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.
資料來源 : WordNet®
overtake
v 1: catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught
us near the exit ramp" [syn: {catch}, {catch up with}]
2: travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks" [syn: {pass},
{overhaul}]
3: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: {overwhelm},
{overpower}, {sweep over}, {whelm}, {overcome}]
[also: {overtook}, {overtaken}]
overtaken
See {overtake}