Overcome: alternatives and connections

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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To bring forth young.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

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To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

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A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.

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A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

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To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by fo…

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To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…

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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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A kiln.

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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

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The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, an…

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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.

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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

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To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

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To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

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To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

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Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an…

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To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.

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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

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To set up; to put upright.

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To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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Gone.

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Gone.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…

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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

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