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📖 Определения и значения для слова overtake

📒 to go past a moving vehicle or person ahead of you because you are going faster than they are

  • He pulled out to overtake a truck.
  • It's dangerous to overtake on a bend.

📒 to become greater in number, amount or importance than something else

  • Nuclear energy may overtake oil as the main fuel.
  • We mustn't let ourselves be overtaken by our competitors.
  • Quinine has been overtaken by newer drugs.

📒 if something unpleasant overtakes a person, it unexpectedly starts to happen and to affect them

  • The climbers were overtaken by bad weather.
  • Sudden panic overtook her.
  • Our original plan was overtaken by events (= the situation changed very rapidly) and we had to make a new one.
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