meaning of overtake
1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
4. catch up with and possibly overtake; "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit
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