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How to sign: win a victory over
"You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up";
Similiar / Same: get the better of, defeat
Within this category: beat, conquer, demolish, down, get the best, lurch, nose, overcome, overrun, rout, survive, upset, wallop
How to sign: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something
"a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work";
Similiar / Same: inundated, overpowered, overwhelmed, engulfed, flooded, swamped
How to sign: get on top of; deal with successfully
"He overcame his shyness";
Similiar / Same: surmount, master, get over, subdue
Categories: defeat, get the better of, overcome
Within this category: bulldog
