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say it: OH-vur-tay-king
overtaking is a noun meaning "going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for overtaking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.