Analysis Complete

overcome

/ overcome /
verb/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
get on top of; deal with successfully
"He overcame his shyness"
Type of:
get the better of defeat
Kinds of:
bulldog
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 2
win a victory over
"You must overcome all difficulties"
"defeat your enemies"
"He overcame his shyness"
"She conquered here fear of mice"
"He overcame his infirmity"
"Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
Kinds of:
demolish destroy beat beat out crush
Derived:
subduer surmounter overcomer
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 3
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
"Heart disease can get the best of us"
Type of:
get the better of defeat
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s something with something
adjective satellite Sense 4
rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something
"a desk flooded with applications"
"felt inundated with work"
"too much overcome to notice"
"a man engulfed by fear"
"swamped by work"
Similar:
powerless weak
verb Sense 5
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
Type of:
arouse elicit enkindle
Kinds of:
devastate seize clutch get hold of kill
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s on something
Semantic Complexity
64%
Sense Count
5
Total Synonyms
2
Total Relationships
23
Times Searched
2
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get the better of defeat bulldog demolish destroy beat beat out crush powerless weak arouse elicit