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What does overtook mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense of overtake
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But its popularity plummeted from 1942, when the mobile hay baler overtook the basic sweep.
I knew something must be wrong when I overtook a second bus with the same number as one I'd already past.
I nearly overtook somebody for the first time ever, but I left it a little late, so I had to pull back in sharpish.
He overtook a coach full of schoolchildren on a blind bend on the brow of a hill and has never even apologised.
Investigators say his car was travelling east when it overtook a motorhome.
We all turned in the direction the creatures were fleeing from as a sudden rush of air overtook us.

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