overcome

voittaa

selviytyä

vallata puhekieltä To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.

to overcome enemies in battle

This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.

By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.

Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille

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And overcome us like a summer's cloud.

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