Definition of overcomes Overcomes
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What does overcomes mean?
Part of speech
🔤- overcomes, verb, present, 3rd person singular of overcome (infinitive).
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| overcome - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" | ||
| get over, subdue, surmount, master | ||
| vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm | ||
| bulldog throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | ||
| overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" | ||
| get the better of, defeat | ||
| demolish, destroy defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors" | ||
| vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm | ||
| wallop defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!" | ||
| down bring down or defeat (an opponent) | ||
| overrun run beyond or past; "The plane overran the runway" | ||
| skunk, lurch defeat by a lurch | ||
| rout out, expel, rout force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." | ||
| upset disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries" | ||
| nose defeat by a narrow margin | ||
| conquer overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" | ||
| pull round, pull through, make it, come through, survive continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" | ||
| overcome - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | ||
| overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake | ||
| enkindle, elicit, kindle, provoke, evoke, arouse, fire, raise derive by reason; "elicit a solution" | ||
| devastate overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died" | ||
| clutch, get hold of, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | ||
| knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out" | ||
| stagger to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" | ||
| lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" | ||
| overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" | ||
| get the best, have the best | ||
| vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- overcome (p. p.)
of Overcome - overcome (v. t.)
To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. - overcome (v. t.)
To overflow; to surcharge. - overcome (v. t.)
To come or pass over; to spreads over. - overcome (v. i.)
To gain the superiority; to be victorious.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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overcome
To end in success a struggle or contest. -
overcome
To surmount a physical or an abstract obstacle.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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overcome
ō-vėr-kum′, v.t. to get the better of: to conquer or subdue: (obs.) to spread over, surcharge.—v.i. to be victorious
