• v.
    ⦿win a victory over
    lexical concept
  • He overcame his infirmity
  • He overcame his shyness
  • Her anger got the better of her and she blew up
  • You must overcome all difficulties
  • defeat your enemies

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:defeat
  2. enl:get the better of
  3. enl:overcome
wn:interlingual indexili:i27138

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • defeatget the better of
  • defeatget the better ofovercome