Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p.
   {Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtaking}.]
   1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion;
      to catch up with.

            Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake
            them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
            good.                                 --Gen. xliv.
                                                  4.

            He had him overtaken in his flight.   --Spenser.

   2. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to
      capture; to overcome.

            If a man be overtaken in a fault.     --Gal. vi. 1

            I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such
            children.                             --Shak.

   3. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken),
      drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.

Source : WordNet®

overtaking
     n : going by something that is moving in order to get in front
         of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of
         every car on the road frightened me" [syn: {passing}]