overcoming


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o·ver·come

 (ō′vər-kŭm′)
v. o·ver·came (-kām′), o·ver·come, o·ver·com·ing, o·ver·comes
v.tr.
1. To defeat (another) in competition or conflict: overcame the opposing team in the last quarter.
2. To deal with successfully; prevail over; surmount: tried to overcome the obstacles of poverty.
3. To overpower, as with emotion; affect deeply: was overcome with grief.
v.intr.
To surmount opposition; be victorious.
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Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself; for overcoming is bitterness, and badly sleep the unreconciled.
Thus ruminating, patient as a cow, I ask myself: What were thy ten overcomings?
"A nice story to go back to the coast--a dozen of you and one missionary, without weapons, weak as a woman, overcoming all of you."
Hairy monsters were overcoming his fighting men, and a black chieftain like himself was fighting shoulder to shoulder with the hideous pack that opposed him.
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