Definition of Overcomes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of overcome) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overcomes

1. overcome [v] - See also: overcome

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcomes

overcold
overcollateralize
overcollateralized
overcollateralizes
overcollateralizing
overcollection
overcollections
overcolor
overcolored
overcoloring
overcolors
overcolour
overcome
overcomer
overcomers
overcomes (current term)
overcomest
overcometh
overcoming
overcomingly
overcomings
overcommercialization
overcommercialize
overcommercialized
overcommercializes
overcommercializing
overcommit
overcommitment
overcommitments
overcommits

Literary usage of Overcomes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"Christian enters the Valley of Humiliation, where fie is .fiercely •assaulted bil Apollyon, but overcomes him, NOW he bethought himself of setting forward, ..."

2. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"AUDACITY overcomes NUMBERS. — WHIG PARTY OF THE SOUTH. — ITS BRILLIANT ARRAY OF LEADERS. — ITS DESTRUCTION. THE negotiation which the seceding State of ..."

3. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero (1904)
"CHAPTER H EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER Ptolemy governs Egypt, overcomes Perdiccas, and founds a dynasty. ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"When the traction force is so adjusted that it overcomes deformity by overriding of fragments, and overcomes muscular spasm, the patient will be free from ..."

5. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"After thirteen years' struggle, he overcomes the resistance of lona, and dies on the very day when the feast of Easter is celebrated by both parties ..."

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