An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OVERTAKEN
OVERTAKE
overtake, catch, catch up with
(verb) catch up with and possibly overtake; “The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp”
overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
pass, overtake, overhaul
(verb) travel past; “The sports car passed all the trucks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
overtaken
past participle of overtake
Adjective
overtaken (comparative more overtaken, superlative most overtaken)
(archaic) drunk; intoxicated
Synonyms
• See drunk
Anagrams
• taken over
Source: Wiktionary
OVERTAKE
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. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser.
2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak.
3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
19 April 2025
CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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