overtake
verb (used with object)
to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with.
overtook
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past tense formof overtake.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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For 10 years now — actually, since around the time streaming decisively overtook people’s listening habits — these Beatles releases have made a pretty compelling case for the collectible physical object.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Further down, Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto and Paris overtook Los Angeles, which dropped two places to 12th.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Despite her injury setback, Hodgkinson overtook Femke Broeders-Bol on the home straight for second in 1:56.26.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Cloudflare, an internet-infrastructure company that provides web security and bot-detection tools to millions of websites, says bots overtook humans on its network in June, generating 57% of all traffic it sees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
He was frozen in a stooped posture, as if he’d been trying to dislodge his feet as ice overtook the rest of him.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
