From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overcome \O'ver*come"\, verb (used without an object) To gain the superiority; to be victorious. --Rev. iii. 21.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overcome \O'ver*come"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Overcame}; p. p. {Overcome}; p. pr & vb. n. {Overcoming}.] [AS. ofercuman. See {Over}, {Come}, and cf. {Supervene}.]
1. 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. To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] --J. Philips.
3. To come or pass over; to spread over. [Obs.]
And overcome us like a summer's cloud. --Shak.
Syn: To conquer; subdue; vanquish; overpower; overthrow; overturn; defeat; crush; overbear; overwhelm; prostrate; beat; surmount. See {Conquer}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work" [syn: {flooded}, {inundated}, {overpowered}, {overwhelmed}, {swamped}, {engulfed}]
verb
1: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" [syn: {get the better of}, {defeat}]
2: get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" [syn: {get over}, {subdue}, {surmount}, {master}]
3: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: {overwhelm}, {overpower}, {sweep over}, {whelm}, {overtake}]
4: overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" [syn: {get the best}, {have the best}] [also: {overcame}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcome": affected, all up with, beat, beaten, best, bested, better, blind, blind drunk, blotto, break, broken-down, brokenhearted, cap, confounded, conquer, crush, crushed, cut up, dash, dashed, deck, defeat, defeated, demoralize, demoralized, desolated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, drown, drub, exceed, excel, fallen, fixed, floor, floored, go one better, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, helpless, hors de combat, hurdle, improve on, influenced, inundated, knock down, knock over, lambasted, lathered, lick, licked, master, moved, neurasthenic, on the skids, out, out cold, outdone, outlive, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overborne, overexcited, overmaster, overmastered, overmatch, overmatched, overpass, overpower, overpowered, overridden, overset, overthrow, overthrown, overtop, overturn, overturned, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwrought, panicked, paralyzed, passed out, perfect, predominate, preponderate, prevail, prevail over, prostrate, prostrated, psych out, put to rout, reduced to jelly, rise above, rout, routed, ruined, scattered, send flying, settled, shake, shaken, shot, shot to pieces, silence, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, speechless, stampeded, stiff, stoned, stricken, subdue, subdued, subjugate, suppress, surmount, surpass, throw, top, tower above, tower over, transcend, trimmed, trip, trip up, triumph, triumph over, trounced, trump, unbrace, under the table, undo, undone, unglued, unman, unmanned, unnerve, unnerved, unstring, unstrung, upset, vanquish, whelm, whelmed, whip, whipped, win, worst, worsted
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