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sorpassare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • overtake verb To pass a slower vehicle, runner, or competitor ahead of you.
  • surpass verb To do better than, or go beyond, someone or something.

Senses

sorpassare is used for these senses in English:

  • overtake To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
  • surpass (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.

overtake — full definition

  1. verb To pass a slower vehicle, runner, or competitor ahead of you.
  2. verb To become larger, better, or more important than something else.

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