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overtaken 音标拼音: ['ovɚt ,ekən] vbl. overtake的过去分词 overtake的过去分词 Overtake \ O` ver* take"\, v. t. [ imp. { Overtook}; p. p. { Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Overtaking}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of. [ 1913 Webster PJC] Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. -- Gen. xliv. 4. [ 1913 Webster] He had him overtaken in his flight. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian. [ PJC] 3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. [ 1913 Webster] If a man be overtaken in a fault. -- Gal. vi. 1 [ 1913 Webster] I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle ( overtaken), drunken. [ Obs.] -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events. [ PJC]
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