Meanings (ES + gloss)
sobreponerse a • superar • vencer
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
But sith this wretched woman ouercome / Of anguish, rather then of crime hath beene,
By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
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