to overtake

Examples

• All

• Even if I got a lead, he'd overtake me soon enough.

  Duel (1971)

• Or will Netflix overtake YouTube and begin to look more like YouTube?

  Colin and Samir

• We can overtake them there.

  Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)

• Is he about to try and overtake?

  F1 (2025)

• The fighter jets gun it and overtake the smaller planes in front of them.

  Fiction book (1996)

• But they have been overtaken in key respects by the sweeping changes of the past generation.

  Academic text (2011)

• Trees flash past in the headlights; occasional cars are overtaken and passed in an instant.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Indeed, Asia's oil demand overtook Western Europe's in 1990 and that of the United States in 1997.

  Academic text (1999)

• As he hangs on, a station wagon overtakes the Peterbilt in the passing lane.

  Fiction book (1997)

• We need to speed up if we want to overtake the car in front of us.

Synonyms

P

to pass

vsto overtake

∞ 1.0

To move past something or someone

specifies closing distance and then moving ahead in the same direction

P

to pass by

vsto overtake

165 1.2

Go past someone or something without stopping

requires closing the gap and then going ahead, not merely passing by

C

to catch up with

vsto overtake

152 2.7

To reach someone ahead of you, often passing them

moves ahead after closing the gap with someone in front

R

to run past

vsto overtake

13 1.3

To move quickly past someone or let a chance go by without acting

involves first closing the gap and then moving ahead rather than just speed

O

to outrace

vsto overtake

2 4.2

To move or run faster than someone in a race

is about closing distance and then moving ahead in normal travel

W

to whisk by

vsto overtake

1 5.1

Move past someone or something very quickly and smoothly

focuses on closing distance then taking the lead, not only smooth speed

How Ahead

to pull away

86 3.5

to overtake

45 3.3

to keep up

507 2.8

to catch up

389 2.7

to trail

91 2.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology