Crossword-Solution: OVERTAKEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overtaken | p. p. | of Overtake |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERTAKEN | anagram | TAKENOVER |
We have 7 clues for the answer “OVERTAKEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Caught up with and passed. | 1 answer |
| Caught up with in traveling. | 1 answer |
| No longer ahead | 1 answer |
| No longer in the lead | 1 answer |
| PASSED UP | 4 answers |
| CAUGHT UP WITH | 12 answers |
| Captured | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTAKEN (5)
Now it was starvation, causing us to eat our own flesh;—now we were contending with the waves, and were drowned;—now we were overtaken, and torn to pieces by the fangs of the terrible bloodhound.
Bathsheba had overtaken him at a point beside which stood a low, stunted holly-bush, now laden with red berries.
Certainly, unless death had overtaken them suddenly, my cousins and she would have fled thence; but it seemed to me I might find or learn there whither the Surrey people had fled.
When he had almost overtaken Thea, Fred called to her, and she turned and waited for him with her back to the wind.
Swift as I was I was none too soon, for the green warrior had been overtaken ere he had made half the distance to the forest, and now he stood with his back to a boulder, while the herd, temporarily balked, hissed and screeched about him.
Quotes with OVERTAKEN (3)
I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy - not as angels but as few are happy amongst mortals. Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course. Other travellers encounter weather fitful and gusty wild and variable - breast adverse winds are belated and overtaken …
Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–2019).