overcome
Verb
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Win a victory over (synset 201110559)
"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"hyponym:
- demolish, destroy - defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- wallop - defeat soundly and utterly
- down - bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- overrun - seize the position of and defeat
- lurch, skunk - defeat by a lurch
- expel, rout, rout out - cause to flee
- upset - defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- nose - defeat by a narrow margin
- conquer - overcome by conquest
- come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
synonym: defeat, get the better of -
Get on top of;
Deal with successfully (synset 201111038)"He overcame his shyness"hypernym: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflicthyponym: bulldog - throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo -
Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli (synset 201813288)
hypernym: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)hyponym:
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Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome (synset 201106429)
"Heart disease can get the best of us"hypernym: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflictsynonym: get the best, have the best
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