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Definition of Overtook

Overtook
Overtake O`ver*take", v. t. [imp. Overtook; p. p. Overtaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking.] 1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. --Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. --Spenser. 2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. --Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. --Shak. 3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.

Meaning of Overtook from wikipedia

- selling rum brands. In 2013 it overtook Old Monk as the largest selling rum of India. While in 2015 it also overtook Bacardi as the world's largest selling...
- Productions' highest-grossing film until 2023 when Five Nights at Freddy's overtook it. The 2019 film Gl****, which combined the casts and characters of both...
- on 14 April 2022. The sequel broke several opening day records and also overtook its predecessor as the highest grossing Kannada film, the first Kannada...
- hotels and apartments began replacing the historic mansions. Brickell overtook the city's central business district to the north, as one of the largest...
- Hervé Revelli became the all-time top scorer in 1975–76 before Delio Onnis overtook him in 1980–81 and has held the honour since. The most recent player to...
- The iPhone briefly surp****ed BlackBerry in Q4 FY2008, and permanently overtook it starting in Q3 FY2010. By 2011, Apple sold 100 million iPhones worldwide...
- had nationalist majorities in the 1918 Irish general election. Events overtook the government. In the 1918 Irish general election, the pro-independence...
- affected Latin America and the Caribbean. On 11 January 2022, Jamaica overtook China in terms of the number of confirmed cases. The COVID-19 pandemic...
- Sergio Pérez and Verstappen. In the race, Verstappen started well and overtook Hamilton for first place; Hamilton briefly regained the lead only to lose...
- Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the following decades, a series...