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overtook

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o·ver·took  (vr-tk)
v.
Past tense of overtake.


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If my memory serves me the disasters which overtook the Majority of this honourable body always befell when it was the Minority's deal.
Powel's and Walden's, and were approaching Cumberland mountain when this adverse fortune overtook us.
The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.
 
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