LekhoriLekhoriTo pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.
To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc.
Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south.
To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.
Our plans were overtaken by events.
An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.
There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.
From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“...
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