run oververb

• 1

  To exceed the allotted time.

  • The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.
• 2

  To cross by running.

  • The athletes must run over the bridge to reach the finish line.
  • A further loop siding is passed at Park House, and, just before reaching the power house, the line runs over a 20-ton Avery wagon weighbridge.
• 3

  To drive over, causing injury or death.

  • Can you believe somebody would just run over a cat like that?
  • Eight Buddhist monks killed and dozens injured after boy, 11, runs them over in a truck
• 4

  To mistreat out of disregard.

  • 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.
• 5

  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.
  • Each man was running over the what ifs in his mind.
• 6

  To rehearse quickly.

  • You'd better run over your statement before going on the platform.
• 7

  To overflow.

  • The bath water nearly ran over.
• 8

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  • Andrew Bishop then ran over in the closing stages, but it was too late.