O`ver*take" (?), v. t. [imp. Overtook (?); p. p. Overtaken (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking.]

1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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 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.

3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.

• To pass a slower moving object.