Usually means: Successfully conquered despite facing difficulties.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcame: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overcame: Merriam-Webster
  3. overcame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overcame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overcame: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overcame: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overcame, overcame: Wordnik
  8. overcame: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overcame: Wiktionary
  10. overcame: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Overcame, overcame: Dictionary.com
  12. overcame: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Overcame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Overcame: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. overcame: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overcame: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcame: Legal dictionary

(Note: See overcome as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
verb:  (intransitive) To prevail.
verb:  (transitive) To recover from (a difficulty), to get over
verb:  (transitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
verb:  To come or pass over; to spread over.
verb:  (obsolete) To overflow; to surcharge.
noun:  (Scotland) The burden or recurring theme in a song.
noun:  (Scotland) A surplus.
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