RUN OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run over mean? 

• RUN OVER (verb)
  The verb RUN OVER has 2 senses:

1. injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle

2. flow or run over (a limit or brim)

  Familiarity information: RUN OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

run down; run over

Hypernyms (to "run over" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flow or run over (a limit or brim)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over

Hypernyms (to "run over" is one way to...):

run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)

"Run over" entails doing...:

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run over"):

geyser (to overflow like a geyser)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

All the best plays were run over in vain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I shall try to run over to see you, dearest, if only for a few minutes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Let me run over the principal steps.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy said, "Everyone seemed waiting for something, and couldn't settle down, which was queer, since Father was safe at home," and Beth innocently wondered why their neighbors didn't run over as usual.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, let me just run over the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I narrowly escaped being run over, twenty times at least, in half a mile.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I answered, “it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been often apt to amuse myself with visions of what I should do, if I were a king, a general, or a great lord: and upon this very case, I had frequently run over the whole system how I should employ myself, and pass the time, if I were sure to live for ever.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A highly sensitive technique for detecting and measuring antigens or antibodies in a solution; the solution is run over a surface to which immobilized antibodies specific to the substance have been attached, and if the substance is present, it will bind to the antibody layer, and its presence is verified and visualized with an application of antibodies that have been tagged in some way.

(ELISA, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)