Overcome
Overcome verb - To achieve a victory over.
Worked and overcome are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Worked" instead an adjective "Overcome".
Nearby Word: overcoming
Both words in one sentence
- If the exposition is worked from the outside-in, the obstacles are sometimes each explained as they are overcome.
Source: Obstacle Exposition - Both the gods in the Heaven and mortals of the Ground will overcome hatred toward each other and worked together to combat and ultimately killing him.
Source: Animation / Kuiba -
He and Jack Ridley worked for weeks on modifying the plane's elevator system to overcome the issue.
Source: Film / The Right Stuff
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