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Definition of Overrode
1. override [v] - See also: override
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrode
Literary usage of Overrode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"These they rather unceremoniously overrode. But at this point, about the end of
the month, the king seemed in a fair way of recovery, and the prince ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"He overrode the moral judgments of ordinary men as fiercely as he overrode their
physical resistance, crushing prejudices as well as Parliaments, ..."
3. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1902)
"In the Bernese Oberland, for example, the valleys were filled to the brim with
ice, which, moving northward, crossed the great plain, and actually overrode ..."
4. England Under the Angevin Kings by Norgate, Kate (1887)
"... but a fixed determination which overrode all obstacles between itself and its
object as unhesitatingly as the old wiking-keels overrode the billows of ..."
5. The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles by George Spring Merriam (1885)
"When anything crossed those desires and purposes he overrode it if he could, and
if it overrode him the defeat was bitter. At some points he could submit ..."
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