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What does overtook mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense of overtake
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He overtook a coach full of schoolchildren on a blind bend on the brow of a hill and has never even apologised.
But its popularity plummeted from 1942, when the mobile hay baler overtook the basic sweep.
Both of them were eccentric originals, portending the radical pluralism that overtook the art world in the next generation.
I knew something must be wrong when I overtook a second bus with the same number as one I'd already past.
In 2001, hip-hop and rap overtook country music as the second most popular form of music bought in the United States.
We all turned in the direction the creatures were fleeing from as a sudden rush of air overtook us.

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