overcame

Verb

overcome (third-person singular simple present overcomes, present participle overcoming, simple past overcame, past participle overcome)

1. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
   • But sith this wretched woman ouercome / Of anguish, rather then of crime hath beene,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 58

   Synonyms:

   hurdle

2. (intransitive) To prevail.
   • Hee that ouercommeth, the same shalbe clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before my Father, and before his Angels.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 3:5
3. (transitive) To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.
4. (transitive) To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
   • to overcome enemies in battle

   Synonyms:

   vanquish

5. To come or pass over; to spread over.
   • I was overcome with anger.

   Synonyms:

   overtake

6. (obsolete) To overflow; to surcharge.
   • A Crop so plenteous, as the Land to load,
     O'ercome the crowded Barns1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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