2 Verbs to Use for the Word overcame

When Larsen reached the town where the National Championship was to be run, there on the street, straining at the leash held by old Swygert, whom he used to know, was a seasoned young pointer, with a white body, a brown head, and a brown saddle spotthe same pointer he had seen two years before turn tail and run in that terror a dog never quite overcomes.

This poor great country, which saved both civilization and Christianity, has been treated with a bitterness which nothing can explain except the desire of greed of those surrounding her, and the fact that the weaker people, seeing the stronger overcome, wish and insist that she shall be reduced to impotence.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  overcame