Overtakes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERTAKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• OVERTAKE, 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

Words related to OVERTAKES

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How to use OVERTAKES in a sentence

• It had been my intention to make it thoroughly impervious, by giving it a coating of paint, But bitter fate ever overtakes us unfortunates.
• In the moment when a great affliction overtakes us, we are hurt to find that the world about us is unconcerned and goes its own way.
• The first boy is irritated at such conduct, he pursues the fugitive, overtakes him, and gives him a blow on the face.
• These people live here and there, in fact everywhere, leading a wandering life in carts, and camp wherever night overtakes them.
• I am convinced that at no moment is one living so vividly, so acutely, as at the instant when a violent and foreseen death overtakes one.
• Such men are the most dangerous foes to their fellows, and we must rejoice when a just punishment overtakes them in their headstrong career.
• There was originally, according to Boer, no question of revenge, except the revenge of fate, the retribution which overtakes the criminal.
• Our king perishes, and utter doom overtakes our hapless city.
• Want of water overtakes the traveller sometimes in the most annoying manner, and it is well to know how to fight off the dry fiend.
• Punishment, indeed, waits upon him only too doggedly, and overtakes him too quickly in the shape of sorrows and privations at home.
• When a storm overtakes the vessel, the sailors leave her to her fate, and bring upon deck the box of saints, one of which is held up, and loudly prayed to for assistance.
• They have no regular house, but stay where night overtakes them.
• Thin the rows early, so that the plants may become stout and hard before winter overtakes them.
• On the other side, if the darkness overtakes you, you may, or may not, tumble down a deserted lead mine.
• He is condemned to exile in Siberia, but is followed by Stephana, who overtakes him at the frontier, and gets leave to share his fate.
• Midnight even overtakes you before you are aware of the lateness of the hour.
• This he has decided shall be his funeral pyre, when the predicted doom of the gods overtakes him.
• She lay back in the carriage in the torpor which overtakes a criminal on the eve of his execution.
• There he walks on till a coach overtakes him, and so travels back to London to find himself in a fresh scrape as soon as he gets there.
• The cause is the country, the neglected country, and until it overtakes the city we must stand still, if we do not go back.
• The cruel disillusion which in consequence overtakes the poor little soul-starved heroine rises almost to the height of tragedy.
• It is a quarter to six by the time the Earnest overtakes Captain Boyton.
• The exaltation is momentary, the cold chill of fact overtakes me.
• They alone had never yielded to the Terranizing which overtakes all Empire planets sooner or later.
• Again, this moment comes later if night overtakes the conqueror in the crisis, and, lastly, it comes later still if the country is broken and thickly wooded.
• The American sun overtakes and distances the English by a full month.
• They have set themselves to combat an evil fate which every year overtakes countless thousands of young girls, dragging them down to misery, disease, and death.
• Before he parts from Festus at the Alsatian inn, a softer mood overtakes him.
• At last, he overtakes his faithless spouse and attempts to beat her.
• Be careful when a stranger gets into your herd and the owner overtakes you and demands it.
• He overtakes the fugitives on an island, where a bloody conflict takes place, in which many of the bravest warriors die.
• A misfortune that overtakes my friend has nothing in common with the grief that I feel in consequence.
• Duessa pursues the Redcross Knight, and overtakes him sitting by an enchanted fountain, weary and disarmed.
• The more phlegmatic race, who take these things quietly, lay their account with the oblivion which speedily overtakes the spiteful article.
• Nor is his life incomplete when fate overtakes him, as one may say of an actor who leaves the stage before ending and finishing the play.

Similar words containing OVERTAKE without suffix s

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