overcome
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
win a victory over
You must overcome all difficulties
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- subduer derivation
Sense 2 verb
get on top of; deal with successfully
He overcame his shyness
Types & categories
Sense 3 verb
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
Types & categories
Sense 4 verb
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
Heart disease can get the best of us
Types & categories
- beat hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subduer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | demolish |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | beat |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wallop |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | down |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | overrun |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | skunk |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rout |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | upset |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | conquer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | make it |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | beat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bulldog |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | arouse |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | devastate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | clutch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | kill |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | benight |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | knock out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | stagger |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lock |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | beat |