Crossword-Solution: OVERTOOK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overtook | imp. | of Overtake |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OVERTOOK | anagram | TOOKOVER |
We have 6 clues for the answer “OVERTOOK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Got past | 3 answers |
| Got (by) | 11 answers |
| CAUGHT UP WITH | 12 answers |
| Surpassed | 20 answers |
| Caught | 32 answers |
| Passed | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTOOK (5)
Marie, _stop_ and tell me!” Emil overtook her and catching her by the shoulders shook her gently, as if he were trying to awaken a sleepwalker.
When we overtook her she feigned anger, and ordered us back to the palace, but for once we disobeyed her, and when she found that we would not let her go upon the last long pilgrimage alone, she wept and embraced us, and together we went out into the night toward the south.
Three miles were covered before Tarzan overtook them, and then Terkoz, seeing that further flight was futile, dropped to the ground in a small open glade, that he might turn and fight for his prize or be free to escape unhampered if he saw that the pursuer was more than a match for him.
The other followed him, and here they fought, occasionally abandoning their duel to pursue and recapture the girl who took every advantage of her captors’ preoccupation in battle to break away in attempted escape; but always they overtook her, and first one and then the other possessed her as they struggled to tear one another to pieces for the prize.
But pretty soon the camel-driver come a-running and overtook the dervish and says: “You ain’t in society, you know, and you don’t really need all you’ve got.
Quotes with OVERTOOK (3)
As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave … overtook him with unwanted intensity.
Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer but, when he was seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. "Why do you not lay down your burden?" asked the kind-hearted driver. "Oh!" replied the man, "I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think …
Gradually it became known that the new race had a definite purpose, and that purpose was to chart and possess the whole country, regardless of the rights of its earlier inhabitants. Still the old chiefs cautioned their people to be patient, for, said they, the land is vast, both races can live on it, each in their own way. Let us therefore befriend them and trust their friendship. While they reasoned thus, the temptations of graft and self-aggrandizement overtook some of the leaders.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).