Overcoming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overcoming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of overcome.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of overcome.
More Meanings
- The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
Example Sentences
In the eyes of their witnesses, exemplary figures redeem their own suffering, which in turn emboldens these witnesses to attempt painful self-overcomings of their own.
Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
Word Forms
- overcomings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include surmount, overpower, swamped, overwhelm, defeat, subdue.
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