I had overcome
-avais surmonté
Past perfect I conjugation of overcome.

overcome

I thought I had overcome.
Je croyais l'avoir surmonté.
Already after the first evening on the course I had overcome my inhibitions and spent half the night with you.
Après ma première leçon, j’avais déjà surpassé mes inhibitions et j’ai passé la moitié de la nuit avec toi.
I stood there, holding that trophy, and I thought about everything I'd sacrificed, what I had overcome.
J'étais là, tenant le trophée, et je pensais à tout ce que j'avais sacrifié, à tout ce que j'avais surmonté.
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