overcome
1. win a victory over (Freq. 14)
- You must overcome all difficulties
- defeat your enemies
- He overcame his shyness
- He overcame his infirmity
- Her anger got the better of her and she blew up
• Syn:
get the better of, defeat
• Derivationally related forms:
overcomer
• Hyponyms:
demolish, destroy, beat, beat out, crush,
shell, trounce, vanquish, wallop, down, overrun,
lurch, skunk, rout, rout out, expel, upset,
upset, conquer, survive, pull through, pull round,
come through, make it
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- The fighter managed to overcome his opponent
2. get on top of;
deal with successfully (Freq. 9)
- He overcame his shyness
• Syn:
get over, subdue, surmount, master
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Hyponyms:
bulldog
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli (Freq. 8)
• Syn:
overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake
• Hypernyms:
arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke,
fire, raise, provoke
• Hyponyms:
devastate, seize, clutch, get hold of, kill,
benight, knock out, stagger, lock
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
4. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
- Heart disease can get the best of us
• Syn:
get the best, have the best
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP (for: have the best)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: get the best)
- The fighter managed to overcome his opponent
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