Usually means: Passed someone or something moving.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. overtook: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overtook: Merriam-Webster
  3. overtook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overtook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overtook: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overtook: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overtook, overtook: Wordnik
  8. overtook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overtook: Wiktionary
  10. overtook: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Overtook, overtook: Dictionary.com
  12. overtook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Overtook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Overtook: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. overtook: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. overtook: FreeDictionary.org
  17. overtook: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtook: Legal dictionary

(Note: See overtake as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
verb:  (economics) To become greater than something else
verb:  To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
noun:  An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.
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