overtaken
Meaning of overtaken
verb
- To pass a more slowly moving object or entity.
The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.
- To become greater than something else
- To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
Our plans were overtaken by events.
adjective
Drunk; intoxicated
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Hyphenation of overtaken
over-taken
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- overtaken is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with overtaken
baken, Shandaken, reweaken, unweaken, unwreaken, weaken, reshaken, shaken, unshaken, Interlaken, oaken, soaken, Kraken, fraken, kraken, Godforsaken, forsaken, godforsaken, unforsaken, Sengstaken, betaken, caretaken, entertaken, mistaken, outtaken, partaken, pertaken, prepartaken, preundertaken, retaken, stocktaken, taken, undertaken, unmistaken, unovertaken, unpartaken, untaken, unundertaken, uptaken, earthquaken, awaken, reawaken, rewaken, waken
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