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/ˈoʊvərrˌaɪdɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Override v. t. (past overrode; past part. overridden; pres. part. overriding)

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. "The carter overridden with (i. e., by) his cart."

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

Hence: To countermand; to overrule; as, a supervisor may override the decision of a subordinate.

To replace (one system with another); as, the pilot overrode the automatic pilot and took manual control of the airplane.

To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. (Obs.) "I overrode him on the way."

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... discouraged another braced Yoshida for his task. As he professed the theory of arms, it was firstly the defences of Japan that occupied his mind. The external feebleness of that country was then illustrated by the manners of overriding barbarians, and the visit of big barbarian war ships: she was a country beleaguered. Thus the patriotism of Yoshida took a form which may be said to have defeated itself: he had it upon him to keep out these all- ...

— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the proletariat shrieking, struggling, hurrying, panting, hurling itself in incontinent frenzy, with unabashed abandon, into the ridiculous sham palaces of trumpery and tinsel pleasures, The vulgarity of it, its brutal overriding of all the tenets of repression and taste that were held by ...

— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry

... managed feints and threats Clinton was held in New York in inactivity. When the decisive moment came, and it was evident that the control of the sea was to be determined in the Chesapeake, Washington, overriding all sorts of obstacles, moved forward, despite a bankrupt and inert government, with a rapidity and daring which have been rarely equaled. It was a bold stroke to leave Clinton behind at the mouth of the Hudson, and only the quickness with which it was done, and the careful deception which had been ...

— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge

... was to speak English. Perhaps they would be familiar with this nearly universal language. But I only knew it, as I did the German language, well enough to read it fluently, not well enough to speak it correctly. Here, however, our overriding need ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... go," said Mrs. Gresley, the mother in her overriding her awe of the Bishop. "I am sorry if Hester is ill. I will"—and Mrs. Gresley made a superhuman effort—"I will come and nurse her myself, but I won't have ...

— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley