- Types Of Speech
- You can use overcome as a verb or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Overcome
- A 3 syllables verb and 8 letters with the letters c, e, m, o, r, and v, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters rc. Overcome starts with and ends with a vowel with the starting letters o, ov, ove, over, overc, and the ending characters are e, me, ome, come, rcome, ..
- Definition
- Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, overcome has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are over, and come.
- Pig Latin
- Overcome in Pig Latin is said as "overcomeay or overcomeway".
- Unigram
- o | v | e | r | c | o | m | e
- Bigram
- ov | ve | er | rc | co | om | me
- Trigram
- ove | ver | erc | rco | com | ome
- Quadrigram
- over | verc | erco | rcom | come
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome;
"Heart disease can get the best of us" - win a victory over;
"You must overcome all difficulties";
"defeat your enemies";
"He overcame his shyness";
"She conquered here fear of mice";
"He overcame his infirmity";
"Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" - get on top of;
deal with successfully;
"He overcame his shyness" - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something;
"a desk flooded with applications";
"felt inundated with work";
"too much overcome to notice";
"a man engulfed by fear";
"swamped by work"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abraded | having the skin scraped off "skinned knees and scraped elbows" |
| Affected | acted upon influenced |
| Afloatp | |
| All Up With | |
| At Sea | |
| Awashp | |
| Baffled | people who are frustrated and perplexed "the children''s faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled" |
| Bat | (baseball) a turn batting "he was at bat when it happened" "he got 4 hits in 4 at-bats" |
| Battered | beaten repeatedly with heavy blows "a battered child" "the battered woman syndrome" |
| Bear Down |
View all cognitive synonyms for Overcome
Overcome Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With O
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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