1. overtaken - Adjective
2. overtaken - Verb
Derived from overtake
of Overtake
Source: Webster's dictionaryModern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse. Barbara Tuchman
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven. Louis Bromfield
Astronomers have so far escaped the extreme specialization that has overtaken physicists. Telescopes are big, but they are not as complicated as accelerators. Observations with a big telescope can be carried out in hours rather than years. Freeman Dyson
Rebellious thoughts are like an abandoned house overtaken by robbers. Tibetan Proverb
He who ridicules the good will be overtaken by evil. Swahili Proverb
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth. Cuban Proverb