Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“overtook” is a form of

overtake

UK /əʊ̯vəːˈteɪ̯k/ · US /oʊ̯vɚˈteɪ̯k/ verb, noun

Forms overtakes overtaking overtook overtaken

  1. verb To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic). “The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.”
  2. verb (transitive) To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc. “Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south.”
  3. verb To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away. “Our plans were overtaken by events.”
  4. noun An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver. “There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.”

Synonyms

forge catch catch up with pass overhaul overwhelm overpower sweep over whelm overcome

Antonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English overtaken, likely a replacement alteration (as the Middle English verb taken replaced nimen (“to take”)), of Middle English overnimen (“to overtake”), from Old English oferniman (“to take by surprise, overtake”), equivalent to over- + take.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
  2. verb To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “overtake”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “overtake” (best matches first).

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