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overtaking    音标拼音: ['ovɚt,ekɪŋ]
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overtaking
n 1: going by something that is moving in order to get in front
of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of
every car on the road frightened me" [synonym: {passing},
{overtaking}]

Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p.
{Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtaking}.]
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1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion;
also, to catch up with and move ahead of.
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Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good. --Gen. xliv.
4.
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He had him overtaken in his flight. --Spenser.
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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.
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If a man be overtaken in a fault. --Gal. vi. 1
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I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children. --Shak.
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4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken),
drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.
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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]


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  • Nominative Thou and Thee in Quaker English - JSTOR
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  • Second Language Studies - Department of Second Language Studies
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  • Quaker Language - World Spirituality
    Accordingly a Quaker-work was produced, which was written to show that in all languages thou was the proper and usual form of speech to a single person, and you to more than one This was exemplified by instances, taken out of the scriptures, and out of books of teaching in about thirty languages
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  • Thee and Me: A Beginners Guide to Early Quaker Records
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