WALK OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk over mean? 

• WALK OVER (verb)
  The verb WALK OVER has 1 sense:

1. beat easily

  Familiarity information: WALK OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALK OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat easily

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship

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

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

walkover (any undertaking that is easy to do)

 Context examples 

Then we shall walk over together.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The straw hit on a good idea, and said: “I will lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over on me as on a bridge.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over her rather too emphatically?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I should like to take a little walk over the moor before it grows dark, that I may know my ground to-morrow, and I think that I shall put this horseshoe into my pocket for luck.

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

Men have a firm step, and when they walk over peas none of them stir, but girls trip and skip, and drag their feet, and the peas roll about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)