Read full poem →Will rest upon its velvet down
When overtaken in the rain,
And wait till sunshine comes again.
Dictionary Entry
To pass a more slowly moving object or entity.
In a Sentence
“The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. overtaken
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Poetry examples for “overtaken”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →mix poison for thee, or who could give thee the venom that heard thy
voice? Surely he had no music in his soul,... But justice hath overtaken
them all.'
Read full poem →In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,
That by her own enchantments overtaken,
She might, no more from human union free,
Read full poem →Sometimes their strong speed they slacken,
Though they are not overtaken;
In sleep their jubilant troop is near,--
Read full poem →I almost stumble looking up and round,
As one who overtaken by the end
Gives up his errand, and lets death descend
Read full poem →Fad’st thou, glow-forsaken,
Darkness-overtaken!
Thy first sweetness,
Read full poem →I had just overtaken the lame cat, and she now moved past me over the
ridge to the cornfields. She seemed most unhappy. I looked back to that