Definisjon av overcome

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Verb

overcome - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
get over, subdue, surmount, master
vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm
bulldog throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
overcome - 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"
get the better of, defeat
demolish, destroy defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm
wallop defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!"
down bring down or defeat (an opponent)
overrun run beyond or past; "The plane overran the runway"
skunk, lurch defeat by a lurch
rout out, expel, rout force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."
upset disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
nose defeat by a narrow margin
conquer overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"
pull round, pull through, make it, come through, survive continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
overcome - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake
enkindle, elicit, kindle, provoke, evoke, arouse, fire, raise derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
devastate overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
clutch, get hold of, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"
stagger to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
get the best, have the best
vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm
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Verb

overcome - To surmount a physical or abstract obstacle; to prevail over, to get the better of.
overcome - To win a battle.
overcome - To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
overcome - To overwhelm with emotion.

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  • overcome
    To end in success a struggle or contest.
  • overcome
    To surmount a physical or an abstract obstacle.

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) overcome
  • Presens: overcome / overcomes
  • Preteritum: overcame
  • Perfektum: (have) overcome

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