run over

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to knock down (a person) with a moving vehicle

2. (intr) to overflow the capacity of (a container)

3. (intr, preposition) to examine hastily or make a rapid survey of

4. (intr, preposition) to exceed (a limit)

   we've run over our time

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run over Idioms  

1. Knock down and, often, pass over, as in The car ran over our dog . [First half of 1900s]

2. Review quickly, as in I'll run over the speech one more time . [Early 1600s]

3. Overflow, as in This pot's running over . This usage appears in the well-known Twenty-third Psalm: “My cup runneth over [with God's bounty].”

4. Go beyond, exceed, as in I've run over the allotted time, but there are still questions . [Early 1500s]

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Example Sentences

First responders have spent countless billions more signing up for an AT&T subscription branded “FirstNet” but running over the same failure-prone commercial network as everyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gelifen half flew, half ran over the lawn and across the flower bed, trampling flowers as he came.

From Literature

A poll of top investors who collectively run over $1 trillion in assets finds they are putting most of their hedge-fund money into so-called quantitative funds that trade based on complex algorithms and machine learning.

From MarketWatch

Late last year, the Alphabet-owned company came under fire for running over and killing KitKat, a beloved neighborhood cat in San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

Then I dig through a box in the closet and find the phone Mom ran over, business cards, and a bus pass.

From Literature

Related Words

• brim
• bubble over
• cascade
• deluge
• drain
• drown
• engulf
• gush
• inundate
• leak
• overrun
• pour
• soak
• spill
• spill over
• submerge
• swamp