OVERTAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overtaking mean? 

• OVERTAKING (noun)
  The noun OVERTAKING has 1 sense:

1. going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it

  Familiarity information: OVERTAKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERTAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

overtaking; passing

Context example:

she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me

Hypernyms ("overtaking" is a kind of...):

reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)

Derivation:

overtake (catch up with and possibly overtake)

overtake (travel past)

 Context examples 

The whirl of the two bodies had already started, and still roaring, or bellowing, he pursued this whirl down the room, overtaking it when it fell to the floor.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Just as I slowed up to avoid overtaking him he stopped and began frowning into the windows of a jewelry store.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Instinct made him step on the accelerator with the double purpose of overtaking Daisy and leaving Wilson behind, and we sped along toward Astoria at fifty miles an hour, until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the easygoing blue coupé.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)