Add and Overcome

Add

Add verb - To join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase.

Overcome and add are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Overcome" instead a verb "Add".

Nearby Words: added, adding

Overcome

Overcome verb - To achieve a victory over.

Add and overcome are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Add" instead a verb "Overcome".

Nearby Word: overcoming

Common collocations

sense add sense overcome sense
power add power overcome power
fact add fact overcome fact
effects add effects overcome effects
Other words: powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Several adaptations address this via Adaptation Expansion; both films add (different) moral crises for Charlie to overcome so that he isn't completely passive, while the 2013 musical goes with the boy's creative drive being put to the test in the climax instead.
  • Gold Fever And it's forced onto her in "The Return of Harmony, Part 1" when Discord brainwashes her into being overcome by her greed- to add insult to injury, the 'giant diamond' with which she becomes obsessed is actually a boulder.
    Source: Gold Fever
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