Definition: 1. Win a victory over. 2. Get on top of; deal with successfully. 3. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. 4. Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome. 5. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something.
Use 'overcome' in a sentence:
1. So far, we have managed to overcome all the obstacles that have been placed in our path.
2. With such drive, there's no difficulty that they can't overcome.
3. Something gave me the strength to overcome the difficulty.
4. Find a way to overcome your difficulties.
5. She will need medical help and counselling to overcome the tragedy.
6. Today's NSC is overcome by day-to-day crisis management.
7. He is consciously trying to overcome his weakness.
8. Some hearing-impaired children may work harder to overcome their handicap.
9. Failures can help us learn and overcome our fears.
10. Do you know what can help you overcome difficulties?
11. To show its effort to overcome complacency.
12. This week Sabrina uses witchcraft to overcome her fear of giving a speech.
13. I then realized how possible it was to overcome your limitations.
14. How did you overcome it?
15. Apart from that, there are other problems to be overcome.
16. They had to overcome formidable obstacles.
17. The government had to overcome isolationist opposition to the plan.
18. He forced himself to subdue and overcome his fears.
19. To succeed, you must learn to overcome obstacles.
20. He lost his leg when he was ten, but learned to overcome his handicap.
21. How do they overcome color-blindness to achieve their camouflage?
22. The "great minds" also had to overcome obstacles to achieve success.
23. We can overcome any difficulty, however great.
24. The residents were trying to escape from the fire but were overcome by smoke.
25. There are many different kinds of natural remedies to help overcome winter infections.
26. I was overcome with a feeling of nausea.
27. We are confident that we can overcome these difficulties.
28. We can overcome any difficulty.
29. These difficulties have been overcome without detriment to performance.
30. This will help overcome the time problem.
31. Other subjects covered included nerves and how to overcome them.
32. This might help you overcome inertia.
33. He made determined efforts to overcome the scandal.
34. Having identified the problem, the question arises of how to overcome it.
35. The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair.
36. I would overcome any weakness, any despair, any fear.
37. She was overcome with grief when her husband died.
38. A hearing aid helps to overcome defects in hearing.
39. Mary was overcome with emotion.
40. I realized how possible it was to overcome your limitations, to achieve well beyond what you believe yourself capable of.
41. I hope that you'll overcome your reserve and let me know.
42. An aircraft has to overcome the resistance of the air.
43. Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
44. Kevin had treatment on the understanding that he would attempt to overcome his drinking problem.
45. The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
46. The dead woman had been overcome by smoke.
47. The two parties managed to overcome their differences on the issue.
48. She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
