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overcome

Dictionary definition · overcome

verb

  1. win a victory over"You must overcome all difficulties"
  2. get on top of; deal with successfully"He overcame his shyness"
  3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  4. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome"Heart disease can get the best of us"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).