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What does overtook mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense of overtake
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I nearly overtook somebody for the first time ever, but I left it a little late, so I had to pull back in sharpish.
The cars, loaded to road-scraping lowness under stacked roof-racks, overtook us hairily.
Investigators say his car was travelling east when it overtook a motorhome.
In 2001, hip-hop and rap overtook country music as the second most popular form of music bought in the United States.
We all turned in the direction the creatures were fleeing from as a sudden rush of air overtook us.
He overtook a coach full of schoolchildren on a blind bend on the brow of a hill and has never even apologised.

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