Overtake is valid Scrabble Word

Is overtake a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is overtake valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for OVERTAKE in dictionary:

VERB:

to catch up with
catch up with and pass while travelling in the same direction
become greater or more successful than
(especially of misfortune) come suddenly or unexpectedly upon
(of a feeling) affect (someone) suddenly and powerfully
move past (a vehicle or person) travelling in the same direction
To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
catch up with and possibly overtake

travel past
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Words related to OVERTAKE

overcatch19 overget11 overhent14 overtaken16 overtakes16 overtaking18 overtook15

Words that contain OVERTAKE

overtaken16 overtakes16

How to use OVERTAKE in a sentence

He appeared ready to let destiny overtake him rather than fire again.
Her sympathies were warmly enlisted for the gentle traveller, and with a beating heart she quickened her steps that she might overtake her.
I then started to overtake the volunteers, coming up with them before reaching Jacksonville, where Capt.
Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us.
We had there expected to overtake the others of our party, but found that they had hurried on.
It was a serious question whether we should try to overtake them.
He asserted that our comrades were fully three leagues ahead when he had met them, and that we would never overtake them.
Fremont, on finding that he could not overtake the enemy, returned to Sonoma.
If death in some form did not overtake the fan-bearer he could enrich and strengthen himself from Israel.
The knight was stricken with deadly terror, for he knew that the doom of which the water-nymph had spoken was about to overtake him.

VII IN THE BREAKERS The young adventurer did not lose his head, and he did not waste his strength in desperate efforts to overtake the vessel.
The soldiers, thinking it would be difficult to overtake him, sent after him a large mastiff who had won the first prizes at all the dog races.
Desmond hoped that he might overtake and capture Monsieur Sinfray, from whom he thought it likely he might wrest information about Mrs.
If men were frank they might perhaps admit that misfortunes never overtake them until after they have received either an actual or an occult warning.
There would be no moon and, even should she overtake them, she might well pass them in the dark.
They know where to go, believe me, and surely I must soon overtake them.
We were lazily confident that day that nothing evil could overtake us.
Scipio, when he landed at Massilia and found himself unable to overtake Hannibal in Gaul, sent his brother Cneius with the army into Spain, while he himself returned to Italy.
She had the feeling of being pressed, of striving to overtake her engagements, which gave a pleasant touch of excitement to city existence.
The stranger seemed as resolved to escape as Winnemak was to overtake him.
He had found the lad easily enough, but not so the man with the fit, whom, for reasons of his own and from what he had seen and heard, Stuyvesant was most anxious to overtake.
Park was fortunate enough to overtake the fugitive Kaartans, to whose kindness he had been so much indebted in his journey through Bambarra.
When Cornwallis entered the county in the last week of January, 1781, endeavoring to overtake Gen.
Only one night and day would I be alone in the forest and I did not care if a death should overtake me.
Bennett, wife of the man I had been trying to overtake ever since my start on this long trip.
I picked them up and strapped them both on the back of my saddle and struck out to overtake the train, which I did just as they were going into camp.
And whoever departeth from his house, and flieth unto God and his apostle, if death overtake him in the way, God will be obliged to reward him, for God is gracious and merciful.
With such a start as the tramps had they might be able to drive a mile ere the running boys could overtake them.
Several of the more powerful boats moved ahead of the fleet and endeavored to overtake the canoe, but they could not.
After all he might overtake Auersperg there and in some manner achieve his task.
Now if Marian were in the body of the town-car, as he believed, he must get her out of it and away before the police and detectives could overtake and apprehend them both.
Had the latter said they were in a weak state, as it appeared they were, we should have tried at any rate to overtake them.

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