1. Get on top of; deal with successfully
   "He overcame his shyness";
   - get over, subdue, surmount, master
    
2. Win a victory over
   "You must overcome all difficulties"; "He overcame his shyness";
   - get the better of, defeat
    
3. Become filled with uncontrollable emotion or too much sensory input
   "overcome with shame";
   - overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, overtake, engulf, ingulf [archaic]
    
4. Do better than or defeat, usually through no fault or weakness of the loser
   "The experienced climber was overcome by bad weather";
   - get the best

Derived forms: overcomes, overcoming, overcome, overcame

See also: go

Type of: arouse, beat, beat out, crush, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, kindle, provoke, raise, shell [US], trounce, vanquish, win

Encyclopedia: Overcome