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What does overtook mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense of overtake
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A childish glee overtook her, and she put out her tongue to catch the falling rain drops.
Both of them were eccentric originals, portending the radical pluralism that overtook the art world in the next generation.
The cars, loaded to road-scraping lowness under stacked roof-racks, overtook us hairily.
Keith lost ground away to Cove who overtook them in the table in a five goal thriller.
I knew something must be wrong when I overtook a second bus with the same number as one I'd already past.
We all turned in the direction the creatures were fleeing from as a sudden rush of air overtook us.

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