Overtake vs Overrake - What's the difference?
overtake | overrake |
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves break over a vessel anchored with its head to the sea.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between overtake and overrake
is that overtake is to pass a more slowly moving object while overrake is to rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves break over a vessel anchored with its head to the sea.overtake
English
Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."