overtake

/ˌəʊvəˈteɪk/ verb (past tense overtook, past participle overtaken)

Translation

MORE SUCCESSFUL [T] › to become more successful than someone or something else

daha da başarılı olmak

Tobacco has overtaken coffee to become the country's leading export.1841

GO PAST [I, T] › to go past a vehicle or person that is going in the same direction

devirmek, düşürmek

It's dangerous to overtake on a bend.1680

(Definition of overtake verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed

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