English verb: overcome | |||
1. | overcome (competition) win a victory over | ||
Samples | You must overcome all difficulties. Defeat your enemies. He overcame his shyness. He overcame his infirmity. Her anger got the better of her and she blew up. | ||
Examples | The fighter managed to overcome his opponent | ||
Synonyms | defeat, get the better of | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | beat, beat out, come through, conquer, crush, demolish, destroy, down, expel, lurch, make it, nose, overrun, pull round, pull through, rout, rout out, shell, skunk, survive, trounce, upset, vanquish, wallop | ||
2. | overcome (competition) get on top of; deal with successfully | ||
Samples | He overcame his shyness. | ||
Synonyms | get over, master, subdue, surmount | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bulldog | ||
3. | overcome (emotion) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | ||
Synonyms | overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | benight, clutch, devastate, get hold of, kill, knock out, lock, seize, stagger | ||
4. | overcome (competition) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome | ||
Samples | Heart disease can get the best of us. | ||
Examples | The fighter managed to overcome his opponent | ||
Synonyms | get the best, have the best | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||