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Overriding   /ˈoʊvərrˌaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Override  v. t.  (past overrode; past part. overridden; pres. part. overriding)  
1.
To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. "The carter overridden with (i. e., by) his cart."
2.
To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; to nullify; as, one law overrides another; to override a veto.
3.
Hence: To countermand; to overrule; as, a supervisor may override the decision of a subordinate.
4.
To replace (one system with another); as, the pilot overrode the automatic pilot and took manual control of the airplane.
5.
To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. (Obs.) "I overrode him on the way."
6.
To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.





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"Overriding" Quotes from Famous Books



... and long-term concessional loans. During the October 2007 summit, South Korea also agreed to develop some of North Korea's infrastructure and natural resources and light industry. Firm political control remains the Communist government's overriding concern, which will likely inhibit the loosening ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... I told you that I came as a friend—as a respectful sympathizer. I told you I would not incite rebellion against you, and that I would not interfere with native custom or your authority so long as acquiescence and obedience by me did not run counter to the overriding law of ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... forest friends, and had thus partially repaid the debt of social and moral obligation to a tribe who fed the first and famishing settlers in Connecticut, who strove to protect them against the tomahawk of inimical tribes, and whose whoop was friendly to freedom when British aggressors were overriding American rights. ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler
... jostled by those who fled beside her. Flames from burning houses threw their glare over fights which occurred in every street and lane, in which wounded men and dying crawled from beneath the feet of combatants into the shelter of black doorways. A band of horsemen galloped up the lane, overriding those who crossed their path, with shouts ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor


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