overtake

«overtake» in Mova's school dictionary: to catch up with someone moving in the same direction and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (overtake, overtakes, overtook, overtaken, overtaking)

meaning for a pupil

1) To overtake is to catch up with someone moving in the same direction and go past them. tree →

2) To overtake can mean to become bigger or better than someone. tree →

3) To overtake can mean to happen to someone suddenly, like a feeling. tree →

sense in the lessons

In road safety, cars overtake cyclists and must leave plenty of space; overtaking is dangerous on bends and hills. In races, a runner overtakes another. In stories, "fear overtook him". American English often says "pass".

examples

• The runner overtook three others on the last lap. tree →
• Never overtake on a bend. tree →
• A car overtook our bus. tree →
• Sales of e-books may overtake paper books. tree →
• Sleep overtook the tired children. tree →
• The faster horse overtook the leader. tree →
• The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. tree →

note

Irregular like "take": overtake, overtook, overtaken. Noun: overtaking. In maths speed problems, one overtakes the other when they have travelled the same distance from the same start.

In the corpora

• India and China are the two most populous countries, each with about 1.4 billion people, and India overtook China around 2023.
• If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; the leader is still ahead of you.
• And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these words.
• I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them; neither did I turn back till they were consumed.
• Thy hand shall be equal to all thine enemies; thy right hand shall overtake those that hate thee.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «overtake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.