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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcome: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. overcome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. overcome: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. overcome: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Overcome: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. overcome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. overcome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. overcome: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Overcome, overcome: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. overcome: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. overcome: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. overcome: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Overcome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. overcome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. overcome: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. overcome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. overcome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. overcome: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. overcome: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. overcome: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. overcome: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. overcome: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcome: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcome: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overcome: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions (overcome)

verb:  get on top of; deal with successfully
verb:  win a victory over ("You must overcome all difficulties")
verb:  overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
verb:  overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
adjective:  rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something ("Too much overcome to notice")

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Phrases that include overcome:   overcome by happiness, task force to overcome racism in topeka

Words similar to overcome:   defeat, master, beaten, conquered, engulfed, flooded, inundated, overcame, overcomer, overcoming, overpower, overpowered, overtake, overthrown, overwhelm, overwhelmed, routed, subdue, surmount, swamped, more...


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