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RUN OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
Synonyms:
run down; run over
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "run over" is one way to...):
injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Flow or run over (a limit or brim)
Synonyms:
brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run over" is one way to...):
run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)
"Run over" entails doing...:
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run over"):
geyser (to overflow like a geyser)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
Wouldn't some of your girls like to run over, and practice on it now and then, just to keep it in tune, you know, ma'am?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My younger children are instructed to observe, as closely as circumstances will permit, the habits of the pigs and poultry maintained in the poorer parts of this city: a pursuit from which they have, on two occasions, been brought home, within an inch of being run over.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From just below; and I am not at all afraid of being out late when it is moonlight: I will run over to Hay for you with pleasure, if you wish it: indeed, I am going there to post a letter.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
