defeated vs overcome

defeated

adj
  • Subjugated, beaten, overcome. 

overcome

noun
  • The burden or recurring theme in a song. 

  • A surplus. 

verb
  • To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of. 

  • To prevail. 

  • To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc. 

  • To recover from (a difficulty), to get over 

  • To come or pass over; to spread over. 

How often have the words defeated and overcome occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )