The people trapped in the burning building 'were overcome' by the heat and smoke.
The family 'was overcome' [='overwhelmed'] by grief.
(..) Don't you like God or if? - He/she looks who speaks. - You would not like to walk above the water and all that... No, I have always feared to the water. Something that I will overcome in some moment. So I will swim and your you take this to the camp. - Sure, he/she walks and you go. - It is well. (..)2007 Into the Wild
(..) The fights and those meetings never finished. He/she took some time for that Chris and I said: "It is necessary to continue ahead, it is necessary to overcome" God, is firewood to prepare I eat lunch and food once and for all. Where Jane left? My friend, everything is not well (..)2007 Into the Wild