overcome

overcame overcoming overcomes
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"
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2. get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
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3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
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4. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
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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"
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