overtake / take over
Overtake (v.) means to catch up with something and then pass it. This can be in
terms of movement/physical speed, or in terms of getting higher numbers:
With a final burst of speed, Gary overtook Paul and won the race.
The number of women in college has now overtaken the number of men.
Sales of the new product will likely overtake sales of the old product by the
end of the year. (in these last two examples, we can also use “surpass”)
To take over (v.) means to take control – one country can take over another
country with military force; when a big company buys a smaller company, it takes
over the management of the smaller company. The verb take over is two words,
and the noun, referring to the action of taking control, is takeover.
pass away / pass out
You definitely don’t want to get these two phrasal verbs confused!
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