overtake
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
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
catch up with and possibly overtake
The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp
Related & opposite
- overtaking derivation
- compete entails
- catch verb group
Sense 2 verb
travel past
The sports car passed all the trucks
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- overtaking derivation
- passing derivation
Sense 3 verb
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
Types & categories
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overtaking |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | compete |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | catch |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | overtaking |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | passing |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | advance |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | get by |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | top |
| 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 |