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What does overtake mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word overtake? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To pass a more slowly moving object.
    1. To pass ahead of a car in traffic.
  2. (economics) To become greater than something else
  3. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
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The media community is reluctant to admit that Sassenach papers could overtake the homegrown product.
Suddenly there were all these cars trying to overtake me, tailgating me, blowing their hooters, angrily gesturing for me to get out of the way.
Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians.
As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him.
I see her in every beautiful woman, in every danger that threatens to overtake me, in every heartbeat, every flicker of emotion.

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