v. 25B6; verb
a green car overtook the taxi : PASS, go past/by, get/pull ahead of, leave behind, outdistance, outstrip.
tourism overtook coffee as the main earner of foreign currency : OUTSTRIP, surpass, overshadow, eclipse, outshine, outclass; dwarf, put in the shade, exceed, top, cap; archaic outrival.
the calamity which overtook us : BEFALL, happen to, come upon, hit, strike, overwhelm, overcome, be visited on; poetic/literary betide.