Overtake /(?)/

imp. Overtook; p. p. Overtaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking

1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion;

   Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good.

   He had him overtaken in his flight.

2. To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian.
3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

   If a man be overtaken in a fault.

   I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.

4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.]
5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events.