Overtake vs. Undertake

Overtakeverb

To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

Overtakeverb

(economics) To become greater than something else

Overtakeverb

To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away

Overtakenoun

An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

Overtakeverb

To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion;

Overtakeverb

To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian.

Overtakeverb

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

Overtakeverb

Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.

Overtakeverb

To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; - used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events.

Overtakeverb

catch up with and possibly overtake;

Overtakeverb

travel past;

Overtakeverb

overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Undertakeverb

(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

Undertakeverb

(intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

Undertakeverb

(informal) To overtake on the wrong side.

Undertakeverb

To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.

Undertakeverb

To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

Undertakeverb

(obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.

Undertakeverb

(obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.

Undertakeverb

(obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.

Undertakeverb

(obsolete) To have or take charge of.

Undertakeverb

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

Undertakeverb

Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.

Undertakeverb

Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.

Undertakeverb

To assume, as a character.

Undertakeverb

To engage with; to attack.

Undertakeverb

To have knowledge of; to hear.

Undertakeverb

To take or have the charge of.

Undertakeverb

To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.

Undertakeverb

To venture; to hazard.

Undertakeverb

To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.

Undertakeverb

enter upon an activity or enterprise

Undertakeverb

accept as a challenge;

Undertakeverb

promise to do or accomplish;

Undertakeverb

enter into a contractual arrangement

Undertakeverb

accept as a charge