Hapless
Overcome
Overcome verb - To achieve a victory over.
Hapless and overcome are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hapless" instead an adjective "Overcome".
Nearby Word: overcoming
Both words in one sentence
- While Stitch causes havoc around the island attempting to overcome his programmed genetics, his Mad Scientist creator and a hapless government agent, who are both aliens with non-human body shapes and numbers of eyes, get along just fine Strangely Effectively Disguised as tourists.
Source: Villains Blend in Better -
But violence and injury slowly begin to overcome others filming the incident and Iris seemingly disappears into the pursued vehicle, leaving a hapless Kevin to follow her signal on his phone in hopes of finding her before it's too late.
Source: Film / V/H/S: Viral
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