overcome

verb

1 defeat/conquer sb/sth

ADVERB

▪ completely

▪ successfully

▪ not entirely

▪

These problems were never entirely overcome.

▪ largely

▪ partially

▪ easily

▪ quickly

▪ gradually

▪ eventually, finally

▪

He eventually overcame his disability.

VERB + OVERCOME

▪ be able to

▪ help (to), help sb (to)

▪

Therapy helped her to overcome her fear.

▪ be designed to

▪

methods designed to overcome these problems

▪ attempt to, battle to, struggle to, try to

▪ manage to

PHRASES

▪ an attempt to overcome sth

2 be overcome become weak; lose control

ADVERB

▪ completely, quite

▪

She was quite overcome by their kindness.

▪ almost, nearly

▪

She was almost overcome by a tide of relief.

▪ suddenly

PREPOSITION

▪ by

▪

Several firefighters had been overcome by smoke and fumes.

▪ with

▪

He was suddenly overcome with remorse for the harm he had done.

Overcome is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑curiosity, ↑fatigue, ↑fear, ↑fumes, ↑sadness, ↑sleep, ↑weariness

Overcome is used with these nouns as the object: ↑addiction, ↑adversity, ↑alcoholism, ↑anxiety, ↑aversion, ↑barrier, ↑bias, ↑challenge, ↑crisis, ↑defence, ↑deficiency, ↑deficit, ↑depression, ↑desire, ↑difficulty, ↑disability, ↑disadvantage, ↑disappointment, ↑disaster, ↑distrust, ↑division, ↑drawback, ↑effect, ↑evil, ↑fear, ↑grief, ↑handicap, ↑horror, ↑hurdle, ↑illness, ↑impasse, ↑impediment, ↑inadequacy, ↑inertia, ↑inhibition, ↑injury, ↑instinct, ↑limit, ↑limitation, ↑mistrust, ↑nervousness, ↑objection, ↑obstacle, ↑odds, ↑opposition, ↑perception, ↑pessimism, ↑phobia, ↑prejudice, ↑problem, ↑reluctance, ↑resistance, ↑roadblock, ↑scruples, ↑setback, ↑shortage, ↑shortcoming, ↑shyness, ↑stigma, ↑temptation, ↑tendency, ↑tragedy, ↑urge, ↑weakness