overcome

Definition

  • verb: to defeat (someone or something)
  • verb: to get the better of
  • usually used as '(be) overcome'
  • synonyms: surmount, conquer, subdue

Examples

  • The people trapped in the burning building 'were overcome' by the heat and smoke.

  • The family 'was overcome' [='overwhelmed'] by grief.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) 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