overtake

To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.

The car was so slow we were overtaken by a bus.

To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc.

Grocery sales in the north have overtaken those in the south.

To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

Our plans were overtaken by events.

VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, / And make me trauaile forth vvithout my cloake, / To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my vvay, / Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.

An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.