override.
To ride across or beyond something.
Meaning & usage
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
A royalty.
A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.