Overcome

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overcome \O`ver*come"\, v. t. [imp. {Overcame}; p. p.
     {Overcome}; p. pr & vb. n. {Overcoming}.] [AS. ofercuman. See
     {Over}, {Come}, and cf. {Supervene}.]
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     1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue;
        as, to overcome enemies in battle.


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              This wretched woman overcome
              Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] --J. Philips.
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     3. To come or pass over; to spread over. [Obs.]
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              And overcome us like a summer's cloud. --Shak.
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     Syn: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow;
          overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate;
          beat; surmount. See {Conquer}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overcome \O`ver*come"\, v. i.
     To gain the superiority; to be victorious. --Rev. iii. 21.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overcome
       adj : rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or
             profusion of something; "a desk flooded with
             applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much
             overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped
             by work" [syn: {flooded}, {inundated}, {overpowered}, {overwhelmed},
              {swamped}, {engulfed}]
       v 1: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties";
            "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She
            conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his
            infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she
            blew up" [syn: {get the better of}, {defeat}]
       2: get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his
          shyness" [syn: {get over}, {subdue}, {surmount}, {master}]
       3: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: {overwhelm},
           {overpower}, {sweep over}, {whelm}, {overtake}]
       4: overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person
          that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
          [syn: {get the best}, {have the best}]
       [also: {overcame}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  156 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcome":
     affected, all up with, beat, beaten, best, bested, better, blind,
     blind drunk, blotto, break, broken-down, brokenhearted, cap,
     confounded, conquer, crush, crushed, cut up, dash, dashed, deck,
     defeat, defeated, demoralize, demoralized, desolated, discomfited,
     done for, done in, down, drown, drub, exceed, excel, fallen, fixed,
     floor, floored, go one better, heart-stricken, heart-struck,
     heartbroken, helpless, hors de combat, hurdle, improve on,
     influenced, inundated, knock down, knock over, lambasted, lathered,
     lick, licked, master, moved, neurasthenic, on the skids, out,
     out cold, outdone, outlive, outweigh, overbalance, overbear,
     overborne, overexcited, overmaster, overmastered, overmatch,
     overmatched, overpass, overpower, overpowered, overridden, overset,
     overthrow, overthrown, overtop, overturn, overturned, overwhelm,
     overwhelmed, overwrought, panicked, paralyzed, passed out, perfect,
     predominate, preponderate, prevail, prevail over, prostrate,
     prostrated, psych out, put to rout, reduced to jelly, rise above,
     rout, routed, ruined, scattered, send flying, settled, shake,
     shaken, shot, shot to pieces, silence, silenced, skinned,
     skinned alive, speechless, stampeded, stiff, stoned, stricken,
     subdue, subdued, subjugate, suppress, surmount, surpass, throw,
     top, tower above, tower over, transcend, trimmed, trip, trip up,
     triumph, triumph over, trounced, trump, unbrace, under the table,
     undo, undone, unglued, unman, unmanned, unnerve, unnerved,
     unstring, unstrung, upset, vanquish, whelm, whelmed, whip, whipped,
     win, worst, worsted