OVERCOME

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser.

2.
v.

To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] J. Philips.

3.
v.

To come or pass over; to spreads over. [Obs.] And overcome us like a summer's cloud. Shak.

4.
v.

To gain the superiority; to be victorious. Rev. iii. 21.


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