Meaning

verb win a victory over

verb get on top of; deal with successfully

verb overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

originInherited from Middle English overcomen, inherited from Old English ofercuman (“to overcome, subdue, compel, conquer, obtain, attain, reach, overtake”). By surface analysis, over- + come. Cognate with Dutch overkomen, German überkommen, Danish overkomme, Swedish överkomma.

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