What does run over mean?

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run over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. run down, run oververb

    injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle

  2. overflow, overrun, well over, run over, brim oververb

    flow or run over (a limit or brim)

Wiktionary

  1. run oververb

    To exceed the allotted time.

  2. run oververb

    To cross by running

  3. run oververb

    To drive over, causing injury or death.

  4. run oververb

    To briefly describe

  5. run oververb

    To practice quickly, briefly.

  6. run oververb

    To overflow

  7. run oververb

    To score a try

Wikipedia

  1. run over

    A traffic collision, also called a motor vehicle collision (car accident or car crash, in case cars are involved in the collision), occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic collisions often result in injury, disability, death, and property damage as well as financial costs to both society and the individuals involved. Road transport is the most dangerous situation people deal with on a daily basis, but casualty figures from such incidents attract less media attention than other, less frequent types of tragedy.A number of factors contribute to the risk of collisions, including vehicle design, speed of operation, road design, weather, road environment, driving skills, impairment due to alcohol or drugs, and behavior, notably aggressive driving, distracted driving, speeding and street racing. In 2013, 54 million people worldwide sustained injuries from traffic collisions. This resulted in 1.4 million deaths in 2013, up from 1.1 million deaths in 1990. About 68,000 of these occurred with children less than five years old. Almost all high-income countries have decreasing death rates, while the majority of low-income countries have increasing death rates due to traffic collisions. Middle-income countries have the highest rate with 20 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, accounting for 80% of all road fatalities with 52% of all vehicles. While the death rate in Africa is the highest (24.1 per 100,000 inhabitants), the lowest rate is to be found in Europe (10.3 per 100,000 inhabitants).

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  1. run over

    To "run over" typically refers to hitting or driving over something or someone with a vehicle unintentionally. It could also mean exceeding a limit, such as a time or budget, or reviewing or practicing something briefly. The meaning can change depending on the context it's used in.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of run over in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of run over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of run over in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    We see this horrible, horrible, radical group of Democrats. You see what’s happening right now, and they’re determined to take back power by any means necessary. You see the meanness, the nastiness. They don’t care who they hurt, who they have to run over to get power.

  2. Wesley D'Amico:

    Don't stop on the road to success so you don't get run over by failure.

  3. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

    Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.

  4. Unknown:

    The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

  5. Samuel Johnson:

    We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.


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