"overcome" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

overcome verbo

overcome + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 93
overcome obstacles • overcome difficulties • overcome resistance • overcome challenges • overcome problems • overcome one's fear • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 24
(1) obstacle, barrier
Kolokacji: 2
(8) odds, criticism, turnover
Kolokacji: 3
(10) limitation, restriction
Kolokacji: 2
(12) reluctance, stress
Kolokacji: 2
(14) feeling, reputation, grief
Kolokacji: 3
(16) sense, mistake, reason
Kolokacji: 3
(17) issue, stereotype, ignorance
Kolokacji: 3
(18) division, bureaucracy
Kolokacji: 2
(20) way, tendency, desire, hunger
Kolokacji: 4
(24) past, decade, year
Kolokacji: 3
1. overcome one's past = pokonywać czyjś przeszłość overcome one's past
2. overcome decades = pokonane dekada overcome decades
  • But private investment will not be enough to overcome decades of stagnation.
  • Only in the last few years have Japan and China been able to overcome decades of hostility and suspicion to improve economic and political ties.
  • He watched and waited, his need and desperation overcoming decades of studied discipline.
  • The Syrian economy is still struggling to overcome decades of corrupt central control, and to attract foreign investment and create jobs.
  • Japan is slowly overcoming decades of reticence about building and using military forces.
  • Your suggestion that keeping the books in Lithuania would serve as "an inspiration to a city still struggling to overcome decades of repression" is naive.
  • Many Shiites were genuinely grateful to Syria for helping them overcome decades of marginalization.
  • In the meantime, what is being lost is the idea that adopting a Western-style democracy here could could overcome decades of ethnic grievances.
  • The new Government in South Africa will have its hands full trying to overcome decades of apartheid and the hatreds and divisions it engendered.
  • The country must also overcome decades of being considered the most corrupt nation in South America, a reputation that has discouraged foreign investment.
3. overcome years = pokonane lata overcome years
verbo + overcome
Kolokacji: 9
help overcome • struggle to overcome • try to overcome • need to overcome • manage to overcome • ...
overcome + preposición
Kolokacji: 20
overcome by • overcome in • overcome at • overcome with • overcome on • ...
overcome + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 18
finally overcome • easily overcome • eventually overcome • quickly overcome • successfully overcome • ...

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