OVERRIDE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

2.
v.

To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.

3.
v.

To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. [Obs.] I overrode him on the way. Shak.

4.
v.

To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.


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