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Run over   /rən ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Run over

verb
1.
Injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle.  Synonym: run down.
2.
Flow or run over (a limit or brim).  Synonyms: brim over, overflow, overrun, well over.






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"Run over" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chao, "who bade you (presume so high) as to get up into that lofty tray? You low and barefaced thing! What place is there that you can't go to and play; and who told you to run over there and bring upon ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... to speak of the heretic. Imagine yourself thrown by destiny on a foreign land. All around you are speaking in an unknown tongue; their language appears to you a chaos of wild, strange sounds. Suddenly, amid the crowd, drops a word in your native language. Does not then a thrill run over your whole being? does not your heart leap within you? Or place a Russian peasant at a concert where is displayed all the creative luxury and all the brilliant difficulties of foreign music. The child of nature listens with indifference ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various

... as Mrs. Ball did. When she was staying here with Aunt Prue, she used to run over to our ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... absolute darkness; and for a while he was sorely frightened, and trembled terribly, and sobbed in a quiet, heartbroken fashion, thinking of them all at home. Poor Dorothea! how anxious she would be! How she would run over the town and walk up to grandfather's at Dorf Ampas, and perhaps even send over to Jenbach, thinking he had taken refuge with Uncle Joachim! His conscience smote him for the sorrow he must be even ...
— Bimbi • Louise de la Ramee

... to secure a good place near the front, and in a few minutes after their arrival the reviewing officer came on the ground. Margery's eye had rapidly run over the troop in which Jim was enrolled, and she discerned him in one of the ranks, looking remarkably new and bright, both as to uniform and countenance. Indeed, if she had not worked herself into such a desperate ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy


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