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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. He said the group seized control of the Brokondo region in Central Suriname over the weekend and overtook the Afobaka hydroelectric about 60 miles south of the capital.
    2. Runyan and five other veteran racers overtook Swenson during the sprint Monday from Rainy Pass to Rohn, 271 miles into the race.
    3. In some countries, there will be reverses such as that which almost overtook Venezuela.
    4. Compaq, the US computer company whose European sales recently overtook those of International Business Machines, is to spend a further Pounds 10m expanding its manufacturing plant at Erskine near Glasgow.
    5. Valium and the tranquilizer Xanax, which overtook Valium last year as the most-prescribed benzodiazepine tranquilizer in the country, are long-acting drugs that can produce seizures when taken at high doses.
    6. For the record, Westminster this year overtook St Paul's for the top position, but these minor annual fluctuations need be of no concern to parents. In the state sector, a select group of grammar schools again appears at the top of the table.
    7. In this political hothouse, where conspiracy theorists abound, many believe that the hand of an arch-conspirator like Mr Mollemann was behind the apparent chaos which overtook Germany's ruling coalition during the past week.
    8. An army of nearly 500 reporters, both American and French, overtook Bush's vacation home for his meeting with French President Francois Mitterrand.
    9. The Sun overtook the Mirror in 1978 and has remained ahead ever since.
    10. The decisions by Chiles and Askew triggered a six-way Democratic race in which MacKay made a late comeback to finish second in the Sept. 6 primary, then overtook Bill Gunter, the state's Insurance Commissioner since 1976, in a runoff on Tuesday.
    11. But I don't think it's something to dwell on." Dukakis, who had never waged a national campaign before, said his biggest surprise was the change that overtook him immediately after the Democratic National Convention in July.
    12. He bought stocks like Associated Cement Corporation (ACC) for Rs50 (Pounds 1) and helped propel them to a peak of Rsll,500 in April. But his ambitions overtook him.
    13. Declining issues overtook advances, with 657 down, 501 up and 565 unchanged.
    14. Modern flutes overtook the recorder in the 18th century, but since the 1920s there has been a revival of interest, and the American Recorder Society now 4,200 has members worldwide.
    15. We overtook barefooted girls padding home with old kerosene tins full of water balanced on their heads.
    16. Brizola overtook da Silva on Thursday in the Globo TV count. Network analysts said Brizola's surge was due to a predicted strong showing in the heavily populated states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, where he was governor.
    17. Jersey says its finance sector overtook tourism in 1986 and accounted for 40 percent of gross national product in 1987, compared with 20 percent in 1975.
    18. The company - financially the strongest of the Big Three - is also on a roll. Ford overtook GM's Chevrolet as the leading nameplate in the US some time ago.
    19. Advancing stocks overtook decliners, 1,226 to 684 as 335 issues soared to new highs and 27 fell to new lows.
    20. Oozing lava overtook the 68th home Saturday, and on Sunday cut off the only road to 21 surviving homes in the Royal Gardens subdivision, said Hawaii County Civil Defense Administrator Harry Kim.
    21. In the 1980s, it more than doubled its market share by emphasizing service. By 1983, it overtook Southeast in deposits, and since then its assets have grown to $31 billion, compared with Southeast's $14.62 billion.
    22. The Conservative Party overtook the Progressive Federal Party in 1987 elections to become the leading opposition.
    23. But I would grieve if that fate overtook chess.
    24. Tobacco and cigarettes accounted for half of Bulgaria's exported processed agricultural products. But the US overtook Bulgaria in the 1980s and now exports more than twice as much tobacco.
    25. 'BT looks cheap as well as safe,' said County. British Gas overtook British Petroleum as the most heavily traded stock in the oil and gas sector.
    26. Advancing stocks overtook decliners, 1,178 to 761, as 117 issues reached new highs and 30 fell to new lows.
    27. Mr. Apted doesn't ignore the missionary fanaticism that overtook Ms. Fossey in the last years of her life.
    28. In Punjab, Rama Kant Jalota, president of a group to protect Hindus and their religion, was assassinated by Sikh radicals who overtook his car on a highway and opened fire, police said.
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