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Synonyms for overcome

The synonym for overcome recorded in this bank is defeat, in the sense "win a victory over". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for overcome

  • defeatverb, in the sense "win a victory over"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and overcome carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineCompetition

win a victory over

You must overcome all difficulties.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

defeat

Same sentence, swapped: You must defeat all difficulties.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

  • overtake
  • sweep
  • carry

Where overcome turns up in the game

overcome is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play overcome

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so overcome reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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