Associations to the word «Overtaking»

Wiktionary

OVERTAKING, verb. Present participle of overtake

Dictionary definition

OVERTAKING, noun. Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats