Get the better of difficulties (8)

I believe the answer is:

overcome

(Other definitions for overcome that I've seen before include "Come over in order to conquer" , "worsted" , "Beat (an adversary)" , "Vanquish" , "being best" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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