overcome
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: defeat |
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Related Words: beat, beat out, come through, conquer, crush, demolish, destroy, down, expel, get over, get the best, have the best, lurch, make it, master, nose, overcome, pull through, rout, rout out, skunk, subdue, surmount, survive, swim, trounce, upset, vanquish, wallop |
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(verb) get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" |
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Synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount, swim |
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Related Words: bulldog, defeat, overcome |
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(satellite adjective) decisively defeated in combat |
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Synonyms: beaten, conquered, overthrown, overwhelmed, routed, vanquished |
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(verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
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Synonyms: get the best, have the best |
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Related Words: defeat, overcome |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: engulfed, flooded, inundated, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped |
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(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli |
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Synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
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Related Words: arouse, benight, devastate, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kill, kindle, knock out, lock, provoke, raise, stagger |
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