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overtaken |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p. {Overtaken}; p. pr & vb n. {Overtaking}.] 1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. --Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. --Spenser. 2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. --Gal. vi 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. --Shak. 3. Hence figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.
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