Usually means: Surpass another in moving forward.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. overtake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overtake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overtake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overtake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overtake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overtake, overtake: Wordnik
  7. overtake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overtake: Wiktionary
  9. overtake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overtake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overtake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overtake, overtake: Dictionary.com
  13. overtake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overtake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overtake (video game), Overtake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overtake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overtake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overtake: Rhymezone
  19. Overtake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overtake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Overtake: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. overtake: Free Dictionary
  23. overtake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overtake: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. overtake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtake: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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verb:  To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
verb:  (economics) To become greater than something else
verb:  To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
noun:  An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

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