- beat
- befall
- catch up with
- engulf
- outdistance
- outdo
- outstrip
- overwhelm
- better
- happen
- hit
- overhaul
- reach
- strike
- come upon
- gain on
- get past
- get to
- leave behind
- take by surprise
On this page you’ll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overtaken, such as: beat, overwhelm, befall, outstrip, outdo, and outdistance.
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How to use overtaken in a sentence
The hotel-keepers thought I was the American tourist overtaken by that final madness they had always anticipated.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Mèste Ramoun, without making clear what misfortune has overtaken him, entreats the men to tell him what they have seen.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER
The girl saw that she was going to be overtaken before reaching the door, and dodged to one side.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMAN
So home by moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller’s coach, and so home to his house with him.
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Stephen Grey:
There is an emerging recognition that flesh and blood human sources ca n’t be overtaken by technology.
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Eric Wakker:
The market itself said it was not good enough, the big manufacturers like Unilever had overtaken RSPO itself when it came to deforestation.
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Jill Biden:
Mean pettiness has overtaken our politics. Today we seem to be at each other’s throat. Sometimes it seems like we can’t govern ourselves. We can talk to one another — if you notice, I get criticized for saying anything nice about a Republican, folks, this isn’t who we are, this isn’t how we got here. We have to remember what it is that makes this nation so special.
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Suresh Sivanandam:
They were the pioneers of refining in the Asia Pacific (but) that has been slowly overtaken by the giants of China and India, there is no single country that has cut on such a scale before.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero:
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity
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Pronunciation:
[ ˌə͡ʊvətˈe͡ɪkən], [ ˌəʊvətˈeɪkən], [ ˌəʊ_v_ə_t_ˈeɪ_k_ə_n]
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- beaten,
- caught up to,
- apprehended,
- Reached.
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v.
• overran (verb)
- overrun,
- overwhelmed,
- outrun,
- Transcended,
- Overtook,
- Overran,
- Surpassed,
- outpaced,
- Transgressed,
- Overstepped,
- overshot,
- Outran,
- outdistanced.
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Other synonyms:
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- Captured.
• Other relevant words:
- fast,
- full-of-the-moon,
- draw play,
- attraction,
- unanimous,
- cut of meat,
- unit,
- consummate,
- stuporous,
- kinky,
- impertinent,
- skilful,
- gross,
- add together,
- idealistic,
- completely,
- break,
- rationalise,
- bold,
- houseclean,
- downright,
- substantial,
- numb,
- amount,
- rattled,
- standoff,
- emit,
- effective,
- loaded,
- expert,
- bluff,
- sluice,
- astray,
- shortened,
- saucy,
- mawkish,
- bang,
- hale,
- lapse,
- unscathed,
- sassy,
- new,
- cast,
- mesmerize,
- accomplish,
- concluded,
- excision,
- let out,
- bloom,
- fill out,
- speak,
- taking into custody,
- well over,
- get,
- jovial,
- pall,
- strip,
- commodity,
- deadened,
- saturated,
- seize,
- wooly,
- perturbed,
- lofty,
- pull in,
- logy,
- pinch,
- thread,
- enamor,
- prune,
- elevated railroad,
- turn off,
- fall down,
- attractor,
- sporty,
- rigorous,
- slash,
- novel,
- decline,
- rosy,
- cutting off,
- hot flash,
- ignore,
- drop,
- reinvigorated,
- brisk,
- upright,
- geld,
- fit,
- high,
- egest,
- neat,
- magnificent,
- talk,
- run over,
- slashed,
- string,
- get rid of,
- go bad,
- plastered,
- full phase of the moon,
- drunkard,
- croak,
- efflorescence,
- innate,
- charge,
- dilute,
- sottish,
- descend,
- flood out,
- light upon,
- flower,
- kick the bucket,
- well,
- high-flown,
- gauzy,
- mellowed,
- slew,
- fairly,
- wooly-minded,
- give way,
- outstrip,
- dependable,
- disregard,
- discharge,
- charm,
- reduce,
- emasculated,
- trip up,
- go along,
- precipitate,
- prime,
- estimable,
- unsounded,
- heavy,
- hex,
- crisp,
- describe,
- virtuoso,
- catch up with,
- festal,
- short,
- haulage,
- hitch,
- across-the-board,
- crapulent,
- reap,
- magnetize,
- veer,
- hot and bothered,
- befuddled,
- dip,
- master,
- conquer,
- taut,
- wide-eyed,
- extensive,
- sum up,
- have the best,
- outgo,
- jolly,
- mouth,
- sloshed,
- clear,
- absolute,
- slip by,
- overflow,
- shine,
- unmingled,
- schmaltzy,
- apprehension,
- absorb,
- nail,
- elaborate,
- pull,
- enthral,
- jocund,
- give out,
- hazy,
- abridge,
- fundamental,
- wipe out,
- ended,
- dispatch,
- light,
- high-minded,
- pass along,
- hook,
- haul,
- swerve,
- fair,
- overhear,
- exalted,
- unconditional,
- masterly,
- mean,
- addled,
- all-inclusive,
- exhilarate,
- perish,
- goodness,
- match,
- all in,
- soppy,
- reject,
- reddened,
- instinct,
- in effect,
- panoptic,
- invigorated,
- overstep,
- ravish,
- intercommunicate,
- give tongue to,
- integral,
- rose-cheeked,
- pie-eyed,
- issue,
- edit out,
- extinguish,
- give-up the ghost,
- affluent,
- white,
- souse,
- get out,
- finish,
- totally,
- all,
- pass on,
- beat,
- woolly,
- uninfected,
- go down,
- lot,
- unhurt,
- gauze-like,
- newly,
- fill in,
- strike,
- impudent,
- drawn,
- tiddly,
- boilersuit,
- unobjectionable,
- make,
- mown,
- freshly,
- unused,
- gelded,
- cobwebby,
- convey,
- mushy,
- imbibe,
- die out,
- hooking,
- crocked,
- slopped,
- magnetise,
- melt,
- shorten,
- enrapture,
- brim over,
- rank,
- fill,
- nightfall,
- spellbind,
- unlearned,
- do away with,
- out-and-out,
- sop up,
- verbalize,
- woolly-headed,
- plumb,
- scour,
- wealthy,
- rationalize,
- perpendicularly,
- cut down,
- satiate,
- drained,
- baseball swing,
- snap,
- laid-back,
- come across,
- thoroughly,
- careworn,
- jinx,
- enthrall,
- cockeyed,
- sporting,
- noble-minded,
- napkin,
- cutting,
- splendid,
- grab,
- rosy-cheeked,
- lessen,
- mellowly,
- appropriate,
- beneficial,
- soak,
- refreshed,
- practiced,
- trance,
- disembowel,
- gimmick,
- soak up,
- crepuscule,
- add,
- over,
- adept,
- watch,
- puff,
- widely,
- line,
- conk out,
- skillful,
- all over,
- glide by,
- kick,
- all-encompassing,
- respectable,
- drop dead,
- miserly,
- achieve,
- clean and jerk,
- wide-cut,
- snatch,
- tickle pink,
- snappy,
- refreshing,
- refreshful,
- tot up,
- cured,
- perfectly,
- burn,
- stinger,
- delight,
- free fall,
- drunken,
- snuff it,
- set,
- devolve,
- bibulous,
- abbreviate,
- exalt,
- rush,
- overhaul,
- weakened,
- closely,
- undercut,
- view,
- nasty,
- brilliant,
- pin,
- hack,
- sportsmanlike,
- blanket,
- unabridged dictionary,
- decimate,
- exhaustive,
- arrant,
- elevated railway,
- perfect,
- stagnant,
- unmixed,
- hang,
- schmalzy,
- blind drunk,
- gain,
- rattling,
- virgin,
- get the best,
- honest,
- stallion,
- dazed,
- turn out,
- exit,
- skip,
- slip away,
- commune,
- depict,
- frizzly,
- gloaming,
- transparent,
- soundly,
- run out,
- annihilate,
- red,
- unplumbed,
- plain,
- salutary,
- suck up,
- alert,
- decease,
- clean house,
- raised,
- see,
- thinned,
- purge,
- witch,
- overproduction,
- choke,
- tailor,
- tumble,
- withdraw,
- transcend,
- sweet,
- broad,
- compressed,
- switch off,
- fuzzy,
- see-through,
- rid of,
- becharm,
- decrease,
- cleanse,
- verbalise,
- swim,
- blurry,
- bring down,
- come upon,
- virtuous,
- eradicate,
- sublime,
- totality,
- el,
- thin,
- pick up,
- sappy,
- exhale,
- outmatch,
- pissed,
- deluge,
- return,
- submerge,
- festive,
- snub,
- carry off,
- zippy,
- happen upon,
- cut off,
- dusk,
- outperform,
- secure,
- encompassing,
- go,
- gay,
- honorable,
- draw in,
- slide by,
- pull back,
- cash in one’s chips,
- double-dyed,
- suddenly,
- blurred,
- full moon,
- beatify,
- pixilated,
- smart,
- capitulation,
- tot,
- vapourous,
- uncontaminating,
- defeat,
- pop off,
- chance on,
- eviscerate,
- diminish,
- all-embracing,
- to the full,
- boilers suit,
- resplendent,
- delineate,
- descent,
- hokey,
- soused,
- add up,
- soupy,
- take hold of,
- slushy,
- draw and quarter,
- tally,
- stiff,
- scavenge,
- wax,
- take out,
- discover,
- staring,
- bathetic,
- declination,
- grand,
- mingy,
- drippy,
- track,
- infest,
- rarefied,
- declivity,
- blush,
- mirthful,
- declension,
- thrill,
- elaborated,
- pull out,
- splendiferous,
- serious,
- downfall,
- near,
- arrive at,
- rosiness,
- top,
- go past,
- invade,
- make out,
- pass away,
- mesmerise,
- take in,
- run,
- arrest,
- masked,
- chance upon,
- glamour,
- put across,
- come,
- dice,
- everlasting,
- overmaster,
- gaining control,
- wholly,
- virginal,
- dear,
- take up,
- guide,
- abruptly,
- edit,
- moneyed,
- unclouded,
- fail,
- drawing card,
- break down,
- slice,
- right-down,
- stringent,
- wakeless,
- aggregate,
- breathe out,
- overbold,
- crepuscle,
- curve,
- overhead railway,
- utterly,
- whelm,
- terminated,
- sound,
- fall upon,
- foggy,
- foreshorten,
- go by,
- ripped,
- unharmed,
- transmit,
- unadulterated,
- rummy,
- gush,
- make clean,
- appreciated,
- surrender,
- downslope,
- proficient,
- contract,
- seizure,
- spanking,
- thin out,
- just,
- sum,
- blotto,
- bleary,
- drag,
- spill,
- crimson,
- tote up,
- spacious,
- haggard,
- entirely,
- stark,
- rarified,
- gash,
- swing,
- frizzy,
- altogether,
- unfathomed,
- suck,
- vestal,
- get over,
- draw poker,
- diaper,
- accrue,
- wise,
- comprehensive examination,
- unspoilt,
- gone,
- clean-living,
- collar,
- unspoiled,
- fascinate,
- idle,
- in force,
- sentimental,
- solid,
- right,
- draw off,
- cut back,
- vaporous,
- autumn,
- filmy,
- deletion,
- kitschy,
- worn-out,
- sate,
- outpouring,
- beguile,
- surpass,
- evenfall,
- wide of the mark,
- express,
- diaphanous,
- summate,
- bushed,
- transport,
- buy the farm,
- trimmed,
- number,
- red-faced,
- mellow out,
- write out,
- surmount,
- obviate,
- worn,
- get the better of,
- outdo,
- plum,
- accomplished,
- sweep over,
- pass,
- boot,
- trim down,
- safe,
- wet,
- blank,
- cold shoulder,
- ripe,
- come down,
- sozzled,
- sodding,
- subdue,
- trace,
- trade good,
- pick,
- hit it up,
- winnow out,
- trim,
- twilight,
- bracing,
- soaked,
- heyday,
- even out,
- gossamer,
- comprehended,
- trim back,
- sot,
- besotted,
- stop,
- blossom,
- become flat,
- settle,
- rule out,
- attract,
- level,
- flow,
- intoxicate,
- conk,
- trend,
- slue,
- quarter,
- even,
- absolutely,
- tie,
- unfermented,
- peak,
- cloaked,
- potty,
- redden,
- thoroughgoing,
- entrance,
- fully,
- lively,
- let loose,
- intact,
- tonic,
- reach,
- close.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- exceed,
- crapulous,
- elevated,
- captivate,
- squiffy,
- good,
- eliminate,
- enchant,
- attain,
- expire,
- replete,
- total,
- complete,
- intoxicated,
- muddled,
- flustered,
- overcome,
- bewitch,
- whole,
- overtake,
- detailed,
- bombed,
- flushed,
- merry,
- Temulent,
- tight,
- drunk,
- communicate,
- thorough,
- drown,
- die,
- raddled,
- pure,
- beery,
- flush,
- in one’s cups,
- caught up,
- utter,
- capture,
- masterful,
- comprehensive,
- maudlin,
- top-heavy,
- Temulentive,
- boozy,
- fall,
- inebriated,
- Obfuscated,
- dead,
- groggy,
- fresh,
- full,
- Screwed,
- catch,
- overall,
- entire,
- corned,
- fuddled,
- elapse,
- muzzy,
- FOU,
- wide,
- excrete,
- tipsy,
- Inebrious,
- unabridged,
- draw,
- inebriate,
- cut,
- unconditioned,
- mellow,
- nappy,
- primed,
- sheer,
- enamour,
- overpower,
- Potulent,
- profound,
- glorious,
- disguised,
- overwhelm,
- clean,
- sewed up,
- smashed,
- Whittled.
How to use «Overtaken» in context?
«Overtaken» is a love story that focuses on the forbidden attraction of two young people who are worlds apart. Emma and Lucas are complete opposites, but their undeniable connection is tempting fate. Emma is the daughter of a high society family who lives in a lavish lifestyle, while Lucas lives in a rough part of town and is a struggling artist. Emma is also engaged to be married, while Lucas is barely holding on to his own life. Despite their differences, they can’t help but be drawn to each other. Emma starts to feel guilty about her engagement and her lavish lifestyle, while Lucas begins to see the beauty in Emma’s life.
Paraphrases for Overtaken:
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Equivalence
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Verb, past participle
Outstripped.
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Verb, past participle
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Independent
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Verb, past participle
absorbed, accelerated, addressed, advanced, affected, afflicted, anticipated, apprehended, assumed, astonished, attained, avoidable, beaten, beset, booked, breached, broken, cancelled, capped, cleared, closed, collected, completed, covered, crossed, delayed, developed, discontinued, earned, elapsed, exceed, expired, fallen, filled, finished, forfeited, gone, grown, handled, impacted, improved, invalidated, joined, lifted, missed, moved, nullified, offset, outdated, overcome, overrun, overshot, overturned, overwhelmed, pierced, placed, rectified, removed, resolved, reversed, risen, run, rushed, serviced, settled, solved, sought, start, stricken, stunted, surmounted, surprised, surrendered, swallowed, taken, terminated, topped, turned, weathered, withdrawn, Aborted, Abrogated, Achieved, Annulled, Avoided, Been, Borne, Bettered, Bridged, Canceled, Cared, Caught, Ceased, Defrayed, Delegated, Deleted, Disclaimed, Displaced, Eliminated, Emerged, Endured, Exceeded, Excelled, Flown, Forgiven, Gotten, Knocked, Met, Obtained, Outgrown, Outlived, Overridden, Overruled, Overstepped, Passed, Picked, Quashed, Reached, Relegated, Repealed, Rescinded, Resulted, Revoked, Tackled, Transcended, Trumped, Undergone, Vacated, Voided, Waived, Consigned, Preceded, Progressed, Stood, Substituted, Succeeded, Superseded, Supplanted, Surpassed, Survived, negated, bypassed, replaced, outperformed, HIT, overmatched, regained, recaptured, outweighed, superceded.
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Verb, past participle
past participle of overtake
as in caught
to move fast enough to get even with
she had to hurry to overtake her friends, who had forgotten their umbrellas the thunderstorm overtook them suddenly
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