OVERCOME

Definition:

1. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: get the better of, defeat
   
   
2. [verb] get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
   Synonyms: get over, subdue, surmount, master
   
   
3. [verb] overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
   Synonyms: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake
   
   
4. [verb] overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
   Synonyms: get the best, have the best
   
   
5. [adjective] 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"
   Synonyms: flooded, inundated, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed
   
   

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• overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master
• rout, rout out, expel
• upset
• nose
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• survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
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• seize, clutch, get hold of
• kill
• benight
• knock out
• stagger
• lock

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