Choose
Overcome
Overcome verb - To achieve a victory over.
Choose and overcome are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Choose" instead a verb "Overcome".
Nearby Word: overcoming
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- You're so overcome by guilt that you can't STAND to lose Dean again and he could NEVER lose you, and so instead of choosing the world you choose each other, no matter how many innocent people die!
- Didn't Sun Tzu say, "When you know your enemy and choose your battlefield carefully, the smaller force is always able to overcome the larger"?
Source: Fan Fic / Streets Of Rage Saga -
Both cases also involve instances where people choose to overcome the mind-control the only way they can.
Source: The Virus
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