Crossword-Solution: OVERTAKE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overtake | v. t. | To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. |
| Overtake | v. t. | To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. |
| Overtake | v. t. | Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERTAKE | anagram | KOREAVET, TAKEOVER |
We have 23 clues for the answer “OVERTAKE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| move past (a vehicle or person) travelling in the same direction | 1 answer |
| The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp | 1 answer |
| Come upon suddenly. | 1 answer |
| Catch up with and pass | 1 answer |
| Pull ahead of | 2 answers |
| Catch up to | 2 answers |
| Catch up with. | 2 answers |
| outpace | 3 answers |
| outrun | 4 answers |
| outdistance | 5 answers |
| SHOOT past competitors | 7 answers |
| Come up with __ | 18 answers |
| outstrip | 18 answers |
| make the running | 19 answers |
| catch up | 21 answers |
| Lap | 32 answers |
| Seize | 35 answers |
| MOVE past | 44 answers |
| Make Haste | 49 answers |
| Overhaul | 50 answers |
| Catch ___ | 73 answers |
| Surpass | 74 answers |
| Pass | 187 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTAKE (5)
Self-guided he leads the way to the spot where death should overtake him, attended by Theseus and his daughters.
The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.
For some time she had been on the alert thinking that Desgas and his squad would soon overtake them, but these came from the opposite direction, presumably from Miquelon.
Xodar had told me that ascending the shaft by virtue of our repulsive rays alone would give our enemies their best chance to overtake us, since our propellers would be idle and in rising we would be outclassed by many of our pursuers.
But the fellows were pressing me; and as I did not know the way at all, I soon saw that they would overtake me unless I found a place to conceal myself until they had passed, which would then give me an opportunity to return the way I had come and regain the tower, or possibly find a way to reach the city streets.
Quotes with OVERTAKE (3)
Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.
I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s real! And I think that when you look at me, you’ll see my rain clouds first, because only after rainclouds can there come the rainbows. You see, if the rainbows come first, then the rainbows aren’t even real, so I think that if people d…
Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance and God has given me hope again.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1956–2022).