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overcome

verb

1 overcome

Win a victory over:
— You must overcome all difficulties.

synonyms: defeat, get the better of.

Roget 615: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse etc. n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, ... show more

Roget 731: succeed; be successful etc. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends; crown with success.    gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there [U.S.]; ... show more

Dutch: uitdeuken

2 overcome

Get on top of; deal with successfully.

synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount.

Dutch: overwinnen

3 overcome

Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.

synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm.

Dutch: overstemmen

4 overcome

Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.

synonyms: get the best, have the best.


adjective

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, ... show more

Roget 874: disgraced etc. v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame etc. n.; in bad repute etc. ... show more

Roget 959: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication etc. n.; temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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