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    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]

    1. Without fresh insights of this kind from today's choreographers, ballet in the U.S. must surely succumb to the inanition that has overtaken it in Europe and the Soviet Union.
    2. Women have overtaken men enrolled in the nation's veterinary schools over the past few years and if the trend continues they are the ones who will be doing the hiring and firing in the future.
    3. "The services are defending budget priorities that simply have been overtaken by events," says Jacques Gansler, a prominent defense analyst.
    4. Equally important, Europe's Japanese and U.S. competitors aren't waiting to be overtaken.
    5. He said plans to limit U.S. forces in Central Europe to 195,000 had been "overtaken by events," and cited the planned withdrawal of Soviet forces from East Germany and an accord limiting a united Germany's troops.
    6. It was overtaken by the much wider popularity of cable television.
    7. By 1976 the number of Spanish girls had overtaken boys in secondary school enrolment.
    8. Generally traders were avoiding taking large positions so they wouldn't be overtaken by events over the weekend.
    9. Initial industry forecasts of 200,000 sales for diesel cars in the UK last year were rapidly overtaken by events.
    10. The party, which was founded in 1913, consisted of the radicals of the women's movement in the early part of the century but since has been overtaken by more modern activists and has all but disappeared from the political scene.
    11. The weekend offer by Iraq to release Western hostages sent oil futures into a decline on the opening, but this softness was quickly overtaken by the unfolding events in the Mideast and Washington.
    12. Business news has overtaken stories of ideological politics in the serious newspapers.
    13. But it expects prices to show annual increases within the next few months as the sharp monthly falls which occurred in September and October last year are overtaken in annual comparisons.
    14. Kadar's reformist successor, Karoly Grosz, was overtaken by the pace of change and relieved last year by a new group of reformers. They dissolved the Communist Party in October and established a new Western-oriented Socialist Party.
    15. But to little immediate effect. The group lost most of its credibility in the financial community last year when its profit forecasts were overtaken by reports of heavy losses.
    16. The first arrivals were mostly letter-box companies; they have been overtaken by trading companies, banks and financial institutions.
    17. "If we don't move fast enough, we risk being overtaken by events," President Francois Mitterrand told monetary officials at a conference Monday.
    18. Robert Joseph, editor of Britain's influential Wine magazine, says Canadians have overtaken the Germans as masters of icewine-making because of their attention to detail.
    19. The Blue Arrow rights issue was overtaken by the 1987 stock market crash.
    20. The Japanese have overtaken us in large measure because they went into semiconductors with the question: What is the right business strategy?
    21. The Arkansas-based discount chain operator has overtaken K mart in turnover terms.
    22. But paying 20 to 25 earnings for a 3 to 5 per cent market share, without a distinct market niche: how do you justify that?' But at this late stage, with just six banks left on the block, passion may have overtaken reason.
    23. It enjoys much more subsidy than its rivals (although it plays more London concerts); its audiences are far higher; its reputation sound. It does not entirely escape the malaise that has overtaken London concert making in the past decade.
    24. The marque had overtaken Mercedes-Benz as the biggest selling German quality car for the first time.
    25. The PDS accounts for two thirds nationwide but in some northern cities has been overtaken by Reconstituted Communism.
    26. A tiny public restroom facility overtaken by drug addicts and street people sold for $504,000 to a restaurateur who plans to build a three-story Italian eatery on the site.
    27. But the moment he lights into "The Blues Overtook Me" to start things off you believe him, and being overtaken yourself is an easy next step.
    28. But Kemble, once the minnow, has overtaken the bigger fishes, and absorbed some of its competitors, including such names as Chappell of Bond Street.
    29. Vonnegut's 13th novel, "Hocus Pocus," is about a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran who writes his autobiography in 2001 as he watches America overtaken by an "occupation army" of Japanese businessmen.
    30. But a significant reduction in output is likely this year because of a late start to harvesting and a shortage of fuel which has overtaken the embattled economy.
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