'overcome' definitions:
Definition of 'overcome'
(from WordNet)
verb
Win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" [syn: get the better of, overcome, defeat]
verb
Get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" [syn: overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master]
verb
Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake]
verb
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, overcome]
Synonyms of 'overcome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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