Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p. {Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtaking}.] 1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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. Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian. [PJC]
3. 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.
4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.
5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events. [PJC]
Cincinnati's worst happened in 1838 when the Moselle blew its boilers trying to overtake the Tribune.
If recent rates of growth were extrapolated, China would overtake the US by 2010.
In an effort to overtake Republican presidential rival George Bush, Dukakis has focused heavily on combating drugs.
Zooming past these buildings, giant Mercedeses overtake giant BMWs on speed-limitless autobahns.
To do so, it will have to overtake companies including JD Edwards, Walker Interactive, Ross Systems and Software 2000.
The US company aims to overtake IBM and Apple Computer to become the world's largest PC manufacturer by the end of next year. Net income jumped to Dollars 151m, or Dollars 1.73 a share, well above the highest Wall Street predictions.
The BJP would gain MPs but not enough to overtake Congress.
The other houses of Japan's big four, Nikko, Daiwa and Yamaichi, grew as well, but not enough to overtake Nomura.
With less than two weeks remaining until Election Day, Dukakis insisted in a late-night television interview Tuesday that there was still time for him to overtake front-runner Bush.
Mr. Quinton wants Barclays to overtake NatWest and become one of the handful of banks playing a global role in the 1990s.
And if it can't overtake Frankfurt, the Berlin stock exchange is out to regain at least some of its old prominence and prestige.
Huaguang's market share is 20 per cent. Mr Kunkel expects China to replace the US as the world's largest beer market within 10 years, and to overtake Germany as the second-biggest market within four years.
None of the Big Three U.S. makers thinks it can overtake the West Germans.
Dole crisscrossed the state in the closing days and stepped up his advertising campaign in an effort to overtake Bush, the perceived front-runner who was endorsed by Gov. Henry Bellmon and most prominent state political leaders.
If trends continued, it could overtake Apple Computer and IBM to become the number one PC manufacturer in 1995, he predicted.
Both Visa and MasterCard-Eurocard expect that European card sales volume will overtake that of the US over the next two years.
But Diet Coke never managed to overtake Pepsi, though the brand does continue to grow.
But the discovery highlights the intensive scientific effort in the U.S. and Europe to overtake Japanese labs in this crucial area of electronics technology.
MALAYSIA BLOWS COLD Malaysia could overtake Japan as the world's No. 1 exporter of room air conditioners by year end.
Banks said the broadcasts also give ABC an extra way to promote other prime-time shows as the network tries to overtake the prime-time ratings leader, NBC.
'Horticulture will overtake tobacco within 10 years,' Mr Heri says confidently. Given that the west European cut flower market is expected to grow from Dollars 12.5bn in 1990 to more than Dollars 19bn by 2000, he may well be on to something.
But now the once taboo subject of homosexuality is erupting throughout the Catholic Church in the U.S., threatening to overtake abortion as the prime issue in sexual-morality debate.
Whatever hurt feelings remain, both sides appeared determined to put an end to the days of wrangling that had threatened to overtake the convention and permanently scar their relationship going into the fall campaign.