run over
See also: runover
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]run over (third-person singular simple present runs over, present participle running over, simple past ran over, past participle run over)
- (idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
- The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.
- (transitive) To cross by running.
- The athletes must run over the bridge to reach the finish line.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
- Can you believe somebody would just run over a cat like that?
- (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
- 1987 February 1, LeRoy Burroughs Jr., “Come Inside And Speak To Us!”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 4:
- It is time that all bisexuals and gays that are in prison become unified and stop letting the administration and other inmates run over them.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
- Before we start the project, let's just run over who is doing what.
- 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 199:
- Each man was running over the what ifs in his mind.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
- You'd better run over your statement before going on the platform.
- (ambitransitive) To overflow.
- The bath water nearly ran over.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- 2010 December 31, “Magners League: Cardiff Blues 27-25 Osprey”, in BBC[1]:
- Andrew Bishop then ran over in the closing stages, but it was too late.
- (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
Usage notes
[edit]- The verb and the particle are generally inseparable, even when the object is a pronoun.
- However in the sense of "to drive over", the pair is usually separated: An old lady in a tiny car ran him over the other day.
Translations
[edit]to continue for too long — see also overrun
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to drive over, causing injury or death
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