overcame
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌəʊvəˈkeɪm/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌoʊvəɹˈkeɪm/
- Rhymes: -eɪm
Verb
overcame
- simple past tense of overcome
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of overcome
- 1738, The New Week's Preparation for a Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper […] , Edward Wicksteed, page 44:
- Had he been merely Man, he could never have overcame thoſe infinite Afflictions he ſo patiently endured.
- 1845, Elijah Goodwin, “Justification by Faith No. IV.”, in The Christian Record, volume 3, J.M. Mathes, page 169:
- […] not because his faith has overcame the supreme being, but because it has overcame the sinner's will, and brought him where the Lord promised to pardon.
- 2008 February 23, Antonia Follenzi; Elza Vigna, “Lentiviral Vectors for Cancer Gene Therapy”, in Kevin J. Harrington, Richard G. Vile, Hardev S. Pandha, editors, Viral Therapy of Cancer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 83:
- However the latest generation of HIV-1 derived vectors (see below) have overcame the need for the presence of the accessory genes and Tat, and thus the HIV-1 derived vectors are now comparable to the non-primate vectors.
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Anagrams
- came over