Usually means: Successfully managing to defeat challenges.
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  1. overcoming: Merriam-Webster
  2. overcoming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overcoming: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overcoming, overcoming: Wordnik
  5. overcoming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overcoming: Wiktionary
  7. Overcoming, overcoming: Dictionary.com
  8. overcoming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Overcoming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. overcoming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Overcoming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. overcoming: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Overcoming: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overcoming: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overcoming)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.

Similar:
surmount, get over, overpower, overtake, defeat, overwhelm, whelm, swamped, beaten, swim, more...

Opposite:
succumbing, defeating, losing

Types:
self-overcoming, overcoming others, overcoming the self, more...

Phrases:
overcoming fear, overcoming adversity, overcoming obstacles, act of overcoming, overcoming the odds, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, self, final, successful, own, complete, such, dialectical, progressive, constant, partial

Colors:
    gold,     emerald,     turquoise,     indigo,     violet, more...



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Similar:
surmount, get over, overpower, overtake, defeat, overwhelm, whelm, swamped, beaten, swim, more...

Opposite:
succumbing, defeating, losing

Types:
self-overcoming, overcoming others, overcoming the self, more...

Phrases:
overcoming fear, overcoming adversity, overcoming obstacles, act of overcoming, overcoming the odds, overcoming struggle, overcoming the past, overcoming failures, overcoming a challenge, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, self, final, successful, own, complete, such, dialectical, progressive, constant, partial

Colors:
    gold,     emerald,     turquoise,     indigo,     violet, more...



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