Overtaking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERTAKING 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
NOUN:
• going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
• act of moving past (a vehicle or person) travelling in the same direction

Words related to OVERTAKING

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Words that contain OVERTAKING

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How to use OVERTAKING in a sentence

• Those of the soldiers whom Trenck had not overthrown pursued, but with little hope of overtaking him.
• Well-timed was the latter thought, for the life to come was much nearer overtaking me than I then could imagine.
• Life leaped into his limbs, and he raced like mad after her, overtaking her with a panting, joyous cry.
• She had no hope of overtaking the Three Kings, but she longed to find the Child, that she too might love and worship Him.
• They walked on at a pace which gave the captain every opportunity of overtaking them.
• We continued on to Crooked River and despairing of finding or overtaking them, we retraced our steps to camp, arriving there about dark after riding 75 or 80 miles.
• But he knew that in the darkness strangers would have no chance whatever of overtaking him, and he slackened his pace into a trot.
• The pioneer of the industrial nations, she thus received such a start in the new race for wealth that it is only today the other nations have succeeded in overtaking her.
• They probably saw the impossibility of overtaking the fugitives by a direct pursuit, and paused to decide upon some different course of action.
• Jacopo turned suddenly, when he judged that he could leave the church without overtaking Beroviero, and he walked quietly down the nave.
• Rogers loitered on the bank until I was close on overtaking him? They had landed at the extreme head of the creek.
• He put on his big straw hat, and taking his umbrella from the stand in the hall, followed the lady in black, never overtaking her.
• With a faint view of overtaking them the pursuer urged his steed to a quicker pace.
• They all ran except one warrior, and as the charging party were mounted on mules, they made but poor progress in overtaking them.
• Captain Clarke arrives at the three forks of the Missouri without overtaking the Indians.
• The soldier who brought it had made a hurried march of thirty-eight miles before overtaking me, and deserved a reward.
• We may be several days in overtaking them, but I shall be only too happy to have you remain with us for that length of time, and longer, too, if you will.
• It was necessary to approach them cautiously, however, for should they take the alarm they would be off at a rate which would give us little chance of overtaking them.
• He was rather ahead of me, and on overtaking him I found him standing by the side of a circular basin whose diameter we calculated to be fully twenty feet.
• Now that we are passing over level ground, we shall have no difficulty in overtaking him.
• Grown desperate at last, it reared and threw him, And Indigestion, overtaking, slew him.
• I was equally well assured of overtaking the brigades, but my business, of course, was to avoid and get ahead of them.
• We were five days overtaking them, and then at a town one hundred and forty miles in the interior.
• I wandered over Asia from east to west, overtaking him in his course, and entered Africa.
• Accordingly, on overtaking our outfit we headed for the juncture of the Brazos and Clear Fork, reaching our destination the second day.
• Declaring them buffalo, the two men took up the trail in a gallop, overtaking the band within ten miles and securing four fine robes.
• Both herds came in within a day of each other, and I loitered along with them, finally overtaking the lead one when within fifty miles of The Bend.
• After dinner, Jacklin asked us if we wanted a change of horses, and as we could see a twenty mile ride ahead of us in overtaking our herd, Flood accepted.
• Presently overtaking him, he cried aloud to him to turn, which instantly he did, and smote Sir Lionel so hard that horse and man went down forthwith.
• All that afternoon, though the wind blew hot in his face, Casey drilled across the desert, meeting never a living thing, overtaking none.
• The difficulty of overtaking the task even when united, and the impossibility of discharging it effectively while divided are also more apparent.
• My brother got an attack of malaria, and just as he was recovering had a relapse, so that President Steyn was so far in advance of us that there was no question of overtaking him.

Similar words containing OVERTAK without suffix ing

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