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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To ride across.
  • transitive verb. To ride beyond.
  • transitive verb. To trample on.
  • transitive verb. To ride (a horse) too hard.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To prevail over; conquer.
  • transitive verb. To declare null and void; set aside.
  • transitive verb. To counteract the normal operation of (an automatic control).
  • transitive verb. To extend over; overlap.
  • noun. A sales commission collected by an executive in addition to the commission received by a subordinate salesperson.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A mechanism or system used to counteract an automatic control.
  • noun. The act or an instance of nullifying.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To ride over; hence, to trample down; supersede: as, a decision that overrides all previous decisions.
  • To ride too much; fatigue by riding.
  • To outride; pass in riding.
  • In surgery, to overlap: said of a fragment of a broken bone in relation to another fragment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.
  • transitive verb. To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; to nullify
  • transitive verb. To countermand; to overrule.
  • transitive verb. To replace (one system with another).
  • transitive verb. To ride beyond; to pass; to outride.
  • transitive verb. To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To ride across or beyond something.
  • verb. To ride a horse too hard.
  • verb. To counteract the normal operation of something.
  • verb. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
  • noun. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
  • noun. A royalty.
  • noun. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. prevail over
  • noun. the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
  • noun. a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
  • verb. ride (a horse) too hard
  • verb. counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
  • verb. rule against
  • Word Usage
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