"overtake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

overtake verbo

overtake + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
overtake Brazil • overtake one's record • overtake Japan • overtake China • overtake Britain • ...
overtake + preposición
Kolokacji: 10
overtake in • overtake with • overtake on • overtake at • overtaken by • ...
overtake + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 10
quickly overtake • eventually overtake • finally overtake • rapidly overtake • easily overtake • ...
(2) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
  • However, court politics eventually overtook him and he was dismissed in 1753.
  • Despite many casualties, the Army forces eventually overtake the base.
  • Obviously, the game eventually overtook the story of the two shortstops.
  • It therefore eventually overtook the Dutch per capita income, but probably only around 1800.
  • The Future History was also eventually overtaken by actual events.
  • Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.
  • Can they survive the trip and eventually overtake Toronto?
  • Despite predictions in the mid-80's that the growing population would eventually overtake China's ability to feed itself, self-sufficiency is not much of a concern anymore.
  • It rode to one side and then to the other and eventually overtook the tanker.
  • It would eventually overtake anything, even if it took thousands of years to do it.
(3) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2

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