Definition of "overtake"

overtake

/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈteɪk/

verb
third-person singular simple present overtakes, present participle overtaking, simple past overtook, past participle overtaken
1. To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
  Quotations
  "I won't over-walk myself," he said, cheerfully. "If the coach doesn't overtake me on the road, I can wait for it where I stop to breakfast. Dry your eyes, my dear; and give me a kiss."
  1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter II, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], 4th (Aldborough, Suffolk), pages 176–177
  The station is planned to include platform loops enabling fast trains to overtake slower ones and is expected to be served by at least four trains per hour towards London.
  2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London service”, in Modern Railways, page 18
2. (economics) To become greater than something else
3. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away
  Quotations
  VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, / And make me trauaile forth vvithout my cloake, / To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my vvay, / Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
noun
plural overtakes
1. An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.