overtaketh
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- (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of overtake
- a. 1598, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona[1], Oxford, published 1914:
- He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.