overcome

win a victory over

• “You must overcome all difficulties”
• “defeat your enemies”
• “He overcame his shyness”
• “She conquered here fear of mice”
• “He overcame his infirmity”
• “Her anger got the better of her and she blew up”

get on top of; deal with successfully

• “He overcame his shyness”

overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome

• “Heart disease can get the best of us”

rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something

• “a desk flooded with applications”
• “felt inundated with work”
• “too much overcome to notice”
• “a man engulfed by fear”
• “swamped by work”