Usually means: Surpassed or exceeded in performance.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. overtaken: Merriam-Webster
  2. overtaken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overtaken: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overtaken: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overtaken, overtaken: Wordnik
  6. overtaken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overtaken: Wiktionary
  8. Overtaken, overtaken: Dictionary.com
  9. overtaken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Overtaken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Overtaken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. overtaken: FreeDictionary.org
  13. overtaken: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtaken: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  Taken by surprise; overcome.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) drunk; intoxicated

Similar:
taken aback, overwhelmable, overtopping, overpowerable, overpowering, overtowering, flooded, tazzed, shocked, staggered, more...

Opposite:
lagging, behind, slower, slower than

Phrases:
allowing to be overtaken, overtaken by illness, more...

Adjectives:
last, little, hope, first, swiftest, next

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Similar:
taken aback, overwhelmable, overtopping, overpowerable, overpowering, overtowering, flooded, tazzed, shocked, staggered, more...

Opposite:
lagging, behind, slower, slower than

Phrases:
allowing to be overtaken, overtaken by illness, more...

Adjectives:
last, little, hope, first, swiftest, next

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     deep red,     maroon, more...



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