(v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
(v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
(2) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(3) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(4) Aims include overtaking Tesco to become the market leader in general merchandise and leapfrogging Sainsbury's to become No 2 in food.
(5) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(6) Desmond has some way to go if Channel 5 is to overtake Channel 4 as the fourth most popular TV channel in the UK.
(7) Until the first exit polls came in on the evening of Sunday 26 June, the sorpasso (overtaking) was taken for granted.
(8) Marketing experts estimated that the campaign cost about £7,500, and succeeded in boosted Cameron’s “likes” by 47,000 to 127,000, overtaking Nick Clegg’s 80,000 in the process.
(9) The overtaking of the role as a widow is much dependent of capacities which are learned in an earlier life span.
(10) THe German striker still needs one more goal to overtake Ronaldo and become the all-time highest World Cup scorer with 16 goals.
(11) It thought it could overtake the socialists as the leading force on the left and, so, either lead the government or lead the opposition.
(12) Batman v Superman this week became the highest-grossing superhero film of 2016 so far, overtaking Deadpool, and is the second highest-grossing movie overall behind Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK).
(13) However Moyles, who had been hoping to overtake the Radio 2 breakfast in the Rajar figures following Wogan's handover to Evans, instead saw the gap between the two shows' audiences increase.
(14) The outlook predicted coal’s ongoing decline would see gas overtake it as the world’s second largest source of energy by 2035, with fracking for US shale driving much of the gas growth.
(15) Even in the multimillion pound industry that is the Premier League these days, fate can still overtake all the best-laid preparations.
(16) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
(17) Market share at Sainsbury's, the UK's third biggest food retailer, remained flat following months of growth that had pushed it close to overtaking its rival Asda .
(18) RBC and Capgemini analysts said the Asia-Pacific region would almost certainly overtake north America this year.
(19) This was the first year that men aged 45 to 59 showed the highest suicide rate, 25.1 per 100,000, overtaking those aged 30 to 44, who had previously recorded the highest rate from 1995 to 2012.
(20) Rees, who was promoted to editorial director at the publishers NatMag-Rodale in April , has overseen a recession-bucking 15-month run of year-on-year sales increases to see his title overtake FHM as the biggest-selling men's magazine in the first half of this year.
Transcend
Definition:
(v. t.) To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
(v. t.) To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.
(v. t.) To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.
(v. i.) To climb; to mount.
(v. i.) To be transcendent; to excel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, it is only by moving to this level that we transcend the paradox of man knowing and explaining himself.
(2) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
(3) Common environmental questions encourage people to come together, transcending regional, political or ethical differences.
(4) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
(5) QPR lost Nedum Onuoha and Sandro to injuries – the latter had forced Mignolet into a reflex save early in the second half – but Sterling came to transcend the afternoon.
(6) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
(7) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(8) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(9) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(10) The corps has in many ways enjoyed a strength in inclusivity; a brotherhood that transcends immediate political loyalties.
(11) Keating made the comments on ABC’s 7.30, a program also featuring his successor John Howard , who said that, despite his concerns about Trump, the strength of the US-Australia alliance and shared values meant it transcended individual leaders.
(12) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(13) Some considerations are made on the importance of clinical, information and its transcendence in medical research, as well as on the ethical value of a qualitatively correct data treatment.
(14) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
(15) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(16) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(17) But the students have persisted, which suggests, again, that their campaign transcends a battle over Rhodes’s legacy.
(18) The Lord of the Rings transcended the thing of simply being films.
(19) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(20) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.