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overtake

English

  1. 🔊 catch up with and possibly overtake
    “The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp”
  2. 🔊 travel past
    “The sports car passed all the trucks”
  3. 🔊 overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Spanish

  1. 🔊 acometer to overtake
  2. 🔊 superar to overtake, pass
  3. 🔊 rebasar to overtake, to pass
  4. 🔊 adelantar to overtake, to pass (to pass a more slowly moving object)

Similar words

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