override
verb (used with object)
to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule.
was overriding
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past progressiveof override.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Silver: Olympic Athletes from Russia — There was overriding consternation among the Russians when this was their only skating medal until the women’s program.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
“The friendship was overriding in the relationship,” Tim says.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017
Something dreadful was loose in the world, and the urge to stop it, to do something — to prove something — was overriding a career-long schooling in the virtues of caution and skepticism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2011
He spoke in little, sharp, jerky outbursts, and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him, and that his will all through was overriding his inclinations.
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His triumph in his own efficiency was overriding his annoyance.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
