overcome

overcome
    v 1: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties";
         "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He
         overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her
         and she blew up" [syn: {get the better of}, {overcome},
         {defeat}]
    2: get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his
       shyness" [syn: {overcome}, {get over}, {subdue}, {surmount},
       {master}]
    3: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn:
       {overwhelm}, {overpower}, {sweep over}, {whelm}, {overcome},
       {overtake}]
    4: overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person
       that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
       [syn: {get the best}, {have the best}, {overcome}]
    

Overcome \O`ver*come"\, v. t. [imp. {Overcame}; p. p.
   {Overcome}; p. pr & vb. n. {Overcoming}.] [AS. ofercuman. See
   {Over}, {Come}, and cf. {Supervene}.]
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   1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue;
      as, to overcome enemies in battle.
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            This wretched woman overcome
            Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] --J. Philips.
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   3. To come or pass over; to spread over. [Obs.]
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            And overcome us like a summer's cloud. --Shak.
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   Syn: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow;
        overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate;
        beat; surmount. See {Conquer}.
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Overcome \O`ver*come"\, v. i.
   To gain the superiority; to be victorious. --Rev. iii. 21.
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156 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcome":
      affected, all up with, beat, beaten, best, bested, better, blind,
      blind drunk, blotto, break, broken-down, brokenhearted, cap,
      confounded, conquer, crush, crushed, cut up, dash, dashed, deck,
      defeat, defeated, demoralize, demoralized, desolated, discomfited,
      done for, done in, down, drown, drub, exceed, excel, fallen, fixed,
      floor, floored, go one better, heart-stricken, heart-struck,
      heartbroken, helpless, hors de combat, hurdle, improve on,
      influenced, inundated, knock down, knock over, lambasted, lathered,
      lick, licked, master, moved, neurasthenic, on the skids, out,
      out cold, outdone, outlive, outweigh, overbalance, overbear,
      overborne, overexcited, overmaster, overmastered, overmatch,
      overmatched, overpass, overpower, overpowered, overridden, overset,
      overthrow, overthrown, overtop, overturn, overturned, overwhelm,
      overwhelmed, overwrought, panicked, paralyzed, passed out, perfect,
      predominate, preponderate, prevail, prevail over, prostrate,
      prostrated, psych out, put to rout, reduced to jelly, rise above,
      rout, routed, ruined, scattered, send flying, settled, shake,
      shaken, shot, shot to pieces, silence, silenced, skinned,
      skinned alive, speechless, stampeded, stiff, stoned, stricken,
      subdue, subdued, subjugate, suppress, surmount, surpass, throw,
      top, tower above, tower over, transcend, trimmed, trip, trip up,
      triumph, triumph over, trounced, trump, unbrace, under the table,
      undo, undone, unglued, unman, unmanned, unnerve, unnerved,
      unstring, unstrung, upset, vanquish, whelm, whelmed, whip, whipped,
      win, worst, worsted