Overtook is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERTOOK 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• past tense of overtake

Words related to OVERTOOK

overtake15 overtaken16 overtakes16 overtaking18

How to use OVERTOOK in a sentence

• Piran, therefore, who travelled at the rate of one hundred leagues a day, overtook them before they had passed through Bulgharia.
• Lord Byron, with his characteristic impetuosity, instantly pushed forwards, and the rest followed, and overtook the hussar.
• Two or three of the Crows they overtook in this manner, but spent little time upon them.
• They nearly overtook the last scow, whereupon its people shifted to the second, and abandoned it.
• When we had walked somewhat more than a mile, we overtook a little girl, who was crying bitterly.
• The bear overtook, and tore up, five of them, one after another.
• He found himself unable to pursue Volagases, and recognized the necessity of retreating before disaster overtook him.
• But before she reached the door some other impulse apparently overtook her.
• But on both sides of us they rushed on, and soon overtook our little fire, and went on to the northwest.
• The misfortunes which suddenly overtook his home roused the keenest sympathy of his neighbors.
• We waited till he overtook us, and the miserable creature appearing completely exhausted with fatigue, we encamped at an early hour.
• At last they entered upon a wooded tract, and here they overtook a party of Nukuheva natives, well armed, and carrying bundles of long poles.
• With long strides he overtook her, passed her, stood in front of her.
• This took more time, and night overtook the outfit with several miles between them and the tank wagon that awaited their coming on the desert.
• Slowly, surely the Sky-Bird overtook the rival machine.
• He was nearly at the gate of the College, when Louis, late and in haste, overtook him, and hurried by him.
• Fremont and his staff left Tipton, when three divisions had gone, and overtook the main column at Warsaw.
• But misfortunes overtook him, and famine threatened him with starvation and death.
• On leaving Atoopa, they, crossed a river, which flowed by the foot of that town, where their travellers overtook them, and they travelled on together.
• When night overtook us it was in a bad place to camp.
• Then complete unconsciousness overtook her, and she sank down.
• And within ten mile he overtook her, and bade her turn again and ride with him to King Mark.
• And he rode after him, and within a while he overtook that knight.
• They overtook so to manage it, that the surgeon should know nothing of the matter till his assistance was called in.
• The depravity of the Greek empire would have brought it to utter ruin at a much earlier date but for the degeneration which overtook Mohammedanism.
• Before they had fled five miles we overtook them and killed eight of their number.
• The boat was at once pushed off, but so strong was the current there, that Ruby was carried past the rock, and a hundred yards away to sea, before the boat overtook him.
• They left Cebu, but a terrible storm immediately overtook them, and separated the boats.
• Darkness overtook him on the bridge that spanned Middleville River.

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