Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overtaking"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

overtaking
n : going by something that is moving in order to get in front
of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of
every car on the road frightened me" [syn: {passing}]


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