Careful Words

overcome (v.)

Who overcomes

By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648.

  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

New Testament: Romans xii. 21.

Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer's cloud,

Without our special wonder?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.