Synonyms of overcoming

overcoming

verb

present participle of overcome

1

as in defeating

to achieve a victory over

the baseball team finally overcame their opponents in the 13th inning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defeating
• mastering
• conquering
• beating
• taking
• surmounting
• getting
• stopping
• dispatching
• subduing
• succeeding
• licking
• prevailing (over)
• overmatching
• upending
• trimming
• triumphing (over)
• winning (against)
• besting
• getting the better of
• finishing
• getting around
• overbearing
• doing down
• worsting
• crushing
• burying
• surpassing
• overwhelming
• exceeding
• sweeping
• skunking
• scoring
• slaughtering
• upsetting
• excelling
• knocking for a loop
• annihilating
• whipping
• breaking
• vanquishing
• transcending
• capping
• flattening
• clobbering
• routing
• topping
• blowing out
• overthrowing
• bombing
• subjugating
• flourishing
• edging (out)
• blowing away
• trouncing
• overpowering
• thrashing
• nosing out
• unseating
• creaming
• smoking
• eclipsing
• walloping
• pipping
• skinning
• outdoing
• drubbing
• bettering
• outshining
• outdistancing
• outstripping
• shellacking
• knocking over
• waxing
• overtopping
• knocking off
• outfighting
• snowing under
• acing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• giving up
• failing
• collapsing
• folding
• going under
• washing out
• flopping
• flunking

2

as in overwhelming

to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress

already under stress, she was overcome by news of a death in the family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overwhelming
• devastating
• crushing
• oppressing
• grinding (down)
• overpowering
• swamping
• overmastering
• defeating
• drowning
• prostrating
• rocking
• disturbing
• whelming
• flooring
• shattering
• snowing under
• sinking
• upsetting
• refuting
• throwing
• distressing
• staggering
• demoralizing
• breaking
• unnerving
• deluging
• confuting
• unmanning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of overcoming

Applicants must write an essay that reflects a background of overcoming adversity, such as growing up in a low-income setting or losing a parent. —Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026

Waring and Woodland are both in the midst of overcoming big obstacles of a different nature. —ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026

Welcome to the era of surreptitious seafood, an industry gamble that overcoming Americans’ relative disinterest in the meat of the sea is all a matter of making fish look and taste less like, well, fish. —J.m. Hirsch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026

At the height of the Great Recession between 2007 and 2009, Pittsburgh was purposely chosen because of its history of overcoming past economic trauma and building new prosperity. —Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026

For all their success the past two years — overcoming historic odds to make the playoffs in 2024, then weathering an unprecedented collapse to reach the postseason in 2025 — the Tigers have not won the American League Central since 2014. —Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026

Musk’s latest vision involves overcoming Earth’s energy constraints by building electromagnetic mass drivers on the moon to facilitate this massive-scale AI infrastructure. —Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026

The summit was initially expected to center on overcoming Hungary’s opposition to a massive loan for Ukraine, but the conflicts in Iran and Lebanon reset the agenda. —Sam McNeil, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026

Ensuring the power supply is reliable, as well as overcoming regulation, will also be key, Hernandez said. —April Roach,gaelle Legrand, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026