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    "phonetic": [
      "\u02c8o\u028av\u0259r\u02ccte\u026ak"
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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English overtaken, likely an replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (\u201cto take\u201d)), of Middle English overnimen (\u201cto overtake\u201d), from Old English oferniman (\u201cto take by surprise, overtake\u201d), equivalent to over- + take."
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        "name": "Verb",
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            "mean": "To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).\nAntonym: undertake (to pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside)\nThe racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.\nThe car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.\n2019 October, \u201cFunding for 20tph East London service\u201d, in Modern Railways, page 18:The station is planned to include platform loops enabling fast trains to overtake slower ones and is expected to be served by at least four trains per hour towards London."
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            "mean": "(economics) To become greater than something else"
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            "mean": "To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away\nOur plans were overtaken by events.\n1609, William Shakespeare, \u201cSonnet 34\u201d, in Shake-speares Sonnets.\u00a0\u200e, London: By G Eld for T T and are to be sold by William Aspley, \u2192OCLC:VVhy did\u017ft thou promi\u017fe \u017fuch a beautious day, / And make me trauaile forth without my cloake, / To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way, / Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten \u017fmoke."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.\nThere wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile."
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            "mean": "take over, takeover"
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