Run Over

Definition: Run Over

Run Over

Verb

1. Injure or kill by running over, as with a car.

2. Flow or run over (a limit or brim).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Run Over

Attention

Examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; (neglect); take a cursory view of.

Compendium

Recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.

Description

Verb: describe; set forth; (state); draw a picture, picture; portray; (represent); characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again.

Numeration

Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Thought

Take into consideration; take counsel; (be advised); commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow.

Crosswords: Run Over

He got run over by a truck. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

You leave your navigator lying around, naturally somebody is going to run over him. (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

I got run over, Helen gets her hair chopped off, Julie gets a dead body in her trunk, and you get a letter? (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Run over to Greenblatt's and get me a fresh rye bread. (Brighton Beach Memoirs; writing credit: Neil Simon;)

The truck that run over your face. (Rocky; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

Got run over. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

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Books

• Let's Be Safe: Containing Such Useful Information As the Avoidance of Strangers and Their Candy, How Not to Be Run over by a Car, and How Generally (reference)

• Run Over (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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An 8th Air Force B-17 makes a bombing run over Marienburg, Germany, in 1943. The date and photographer are not known. (Army Air Forces photo).

Stock market run over by auto cutbacks. Credit: Library of Congress.

Uncle Sam run over by a missile. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.

I had three dogs run over in a year.

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Business

The investments will run over a four-year period. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Originally named the Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme (SSDS), the project was beset by geo-technical and contract problems that caused it to run over budget and behind schedule. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

The unarmed Hercouet was trying to evade police arrest after stealing a car, and he allegedly attempted to run over the officers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "run over": run over smb. smth. ♦ run over smth. ♦ To run over ♦ weight per foot run over buffers ♦ weight per meter run over buffers ♦ weight per metre run over buffers. Additional references.

Albanian

shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), dynd (swamp), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, sluice, spill, stream). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاض (deluge, flood, flow, flow over, inundate, overfill, overflow, spill over, stream), ‏تخطى (bestride, encroach, encroachment, exceed, go beyond, outrun, overpass, overreach, overshoot, overstep, overtake, skip, surpass, transgress, tread over), ‏تجاوز الحد (overdo, overindulgence, run over smth., trespass), ‏دهس, ‏داس (run down, trample, tread). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отскачам набързо, надхвърлил определения обем, закарвам (run), прегазвам (override, overrun, run down, splash), преглеждам набързо (glance over), преливам (brim over, burst, fade, flow, infuse, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, simmer over, slop over, transfuse, well over), препълнен съм (brim over), притичвам. (various references)

Czech

přetéci, přejet (get across, pass), přebìhnout (defect, run across). (various references)

Danish

vognvægt divideret med afstand mellem puffernes ender (weight per foot run over buffers, weight per meter run over buffers, weight per metre run over buffers), koere mod tungespidsen (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte mod spidsen (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte i modgaaende retning (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte (to run over a point, to take a point). (various references)

Dutch

overrýden, oprýden. (various references)

Esperanto

surveturi. (various references)

Finnish

vuotaa yli reunojen (overflow), ajaa yli. (various references)

French

repasser, jeter un coup d'�"il, dépasser (run over/to), déborder (run over smb. smth.), écraser (run over smth.), ébahir. (various references)

German

zusammenfahren (collide, crash, flinch, jump, start, wreck), umfahren (bowl over, bypass, circle, circumnavigate, detour, double, drive around, drive round, knock down, round, run down, sail around, to drive round), überfließen (brim, brim over, flood, gush, inundate, overflow, to overflow, to run over), überfahren (come over, cross over, drive over, ferry across, go over, go through, knock down, overrun, take across, to knock down, to run down, to run over). (various references)

Greek 

ξεχειλίζω (boil over, brim, bubble over, overflow, slop, top up), πατώ με αυτοκίνητο. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעבור על (go over), ל�"רוס (knock down, run down, stomp, take for a ride), ל�'לוש (brim over, glide, overflow, slide, slop, trail). (various references)

Hungarian

elüt (hit, to contrast, to hit, to jar, to toll), beugrik látogatóba (call on, run in), átgázol (-ridden, -rode, to override, to wade). (various references)

Indonesian

tergelek (crushed, knocked down), menggilaskan, gilas (cross over, crush, overrun, pulverise), gelek (dodge, rool over). (various references)

Italian

rileggere (read again, read back), ricapitolare (recap, recapitulate, run through, sum up, summarise, summarize), travolgere (overwhelm, steamroller, sweep away), investire (assail, give, invest, place, put, run down, sink, vest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

轢死 (death by being run over), 予算の� �'超えそう (may threatening to run over the budget). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

れきし (death by being run over, history, successive emperors, successive generations, using the same retainers). (various references)

Manx

roie harrish (outflow, overflow, range), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray overay

Portuguese

recapitular (recap, recapitulate, review), passar correndo, examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discuss, enquire, examine, explore, eye, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, probe, question, quiz, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, vet, view), atropelar (jostle, knock down, shove). (various references)

Romanian

se revãrsa (brim over, cascade, disgorge, flush, overflow, overrun, pour, wash over), da peste margini, curge peste. (various references)

Russian 

задавить (run down), переехать (override). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trknuti (run down), protrčati (run through), pregaziti (run down, wade), pogaziti, otrčati (run off). (various references)

Spanish

desbordarse (flood, lap over, overflow, slop, spill over), atropellar (be run down, collide, knock down, knock over, mob, outrage, push around, run, run down, walk over). (various references)

Swedish

köra över (overrun), överkörd. (various references)

Turkish

taşmak (boil over, brim over, flow, get over, gush, overbrim, overflow, pour forth, pour out, slop over, spill over, swell, swim, well over), koşarak gitmek, koşarak geçmek (run), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), üstünden geçmek (overpass, work over), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate), çiğneme (breach, chew, chewing, contravention, infraction, mastication, masticatory, nonobservance, non-observance, trample, tread under foot). (various references)

Ukrainian

переглядати (censor, look over, look through, oversee, ransack, reconsider, rethink, revise, thumb through), переливатися через край (overflow, overgang, overgo, overrun). (various references)

abundare, cursor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overrun, runover.

-1 letter: unrove.

-2 letters: rerun, rouen, roven, rover.

-3 letters: euro, oven, over, roue, rove, ruer, rune.

-4 letters: eon, ern, err, nor, one, ore, our, rev, roe, rue, run, urn, voe.

-5 letters: en, er, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, un.

+1 letter: overburn, overruns, overturn, runovers, turnover.

+2 letters: overburns, overburnt, overdrunk, overturns, turnovers.

+3 letters: overburden, overburned, overcuring, overinsure, overruling, overstrung, overturing, overturned, overurging, undercover.

+4 letters: enterovirus, overburdens, overburning, overinsured, overinsures, overnourish, overruffing, overrunning, overturning, rejuvenator, unrecovered.

+5 letters: overburdened, overgenerous, overinsuring, overtrumping, rejuvenators, renovascular, rhinoviruses.