verb
- Win a victory over.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: get the better of, defeat
- Get on top of; deal with successfully.
- usage: "He overcame his shyness"
- Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
- synonyms: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overtake
- Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.
- usage: "Heart disease can get the best of us"
- synonyms: get the best, have the best
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