overtake
ultrapassar
definition
verb
the driver overtook a line of vehicles
catch up with and pass while traveling in the same direction.
the pattern of economic ruin overtook them
(especially of misfortune) come suddenly or unexpectedly upon.
translation of 'overtake'
verb
alcançar,
atingir,
surpreender,
assaltar,
passar à frente de,
ultrapassar
example
While chipping at the landing is still the principal means of comminution, bundling is growing rapidly and could easily 'overtake' roadside chipping within a few years.
Isn't it just so annoying when one lorry travelling at 60 mph tries to 'overtake' another which is travelling at 58 mph?
Take along some mint because the fast descent down the mountain might disturb even city folk, especially when the driver pulls out to 'overtake' other cars on the narrow road.
A driver attempted to 'overtake' them but couldn't complete the move, and pulled towards their SUV.
In this, time was an indispensable ally: dictators might die, crops fail, disaster 'overtake' an expedition; it all helps, given time.
Later that year he presented the Report on Manufactures, an ambitious plan to 'overtake' Britain in industrial output.
Wait until it is safe to 'overtake' , and then pass wide and slow.
Tourism is doing pretty well in Mauritius, too, and is set to 'overtake' sugar as the country's most important industry.
My driver then tries to 'overtake' the truck at the same time.
She is concerned that, unless things change fairly rapidly, a similar fate will 'overtake' her own premises.
Now, if a daring driver decides to 'overtake' the bus in front, he runs into trouble in uniform.
Unfortunately, as happens so often to columnists who monitor current affairs at the global level, events 'overtake' the best of intentions.
The team has managed to 'overtake' last year's successes to receive commendation for every entry they submitted this year.
That's the key to what we have to do, is we have to maintain the ability to pass and 'overtake' .
He said the boom in China's economy had helped shipping 'overtake' tourism.
Express bus drivers who don't 'overtake' other buses, hence stopping unnecessarily at every stop.
Nobody in retailing underestimates the power of the card: its success undoubtedly helped Tesco to 'overtake' Sainsbury as Britain's leading grocer.
If I didn't, I feared panic would 'overtake' me so badly that I really had no other choice but to try and go.
You don't let frustration 'overtake' you when you're looking for change.
When one of these moods 'overtook' her, she became unmanageable.
But archaeologists found themselves on the wrong side of history, 'overtaken' by events that they tried hard to forestall.
The costs were massive and new procedures were often 'overtaken' by events even before they were implemented.
But just as the petrol engine 'overtook' the trams and the telephone surpassed the telegraph, it now seems the mobile is set to conquer the landline.
Sights like these become familiar after a few days in Pakistan, although it takes a little longer to get used to drivers 'overtaking' the buses and everything else on blind bends with horns blaring.
A Shandean fate 'overtook' his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
Even such a disaster as had 'overtaken' them at Kup caused no despondency among the Sikhs.
Instead, we see his unvarnished, unpretty tears when anguish 'overtakes' him.
But although he continued recording, his deep soul style was rapidly 'overtaken' by funk and disco and, later, rap.
In recent years, low prices have devastated coffee farming in Rwanda, and tea exports have now 'overtaken' coffee.
Coffee has 'overtaken' tea as the most popular drink outside the home.
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