overcome

Plural: overcomes

Verb

Verb Forms: overcame, overcoming, overcomes

• To successfully deal with a problem or difficulty.
• win a victory over
  • "You must overcome all difficulties"
• get on top of; deal with successfully
• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
• overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
• To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• To prevail.
• To recover from (a difficulty), to get over
• To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• To come or pass over; to spread over.
• To overflow; to surcharge.

Noun

• The burden or recurring theme in a song.
• A surplus.

Adj

• That has been overcome, prevailed over.

Examples

• I had to overcome the urge to hoard high-value letters, playing them strategically instead.
• I was overcome with anger.
• to overcome enemies in battle

Synonyms

defeat, get over, get the best, get the better of, have the best, master, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, subdue, surmount, sweep over, whelm, vanquish

Anagrams of overcome