Synonyms for running over


Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : ruhn
Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒn

Top 10 synonyms for running over Other synonyms for the word running over

Définition of running over

Origin :
  • the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
  • The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
  • Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
  • Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
  • To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.
  • As in stuffed : adj crammed
  • As in heaping : adj sated
  • As in brimming : adj overflowing
  • As in brimming/brimful : adj overflowing; up to the top
  • As in full : adj brimming, filled
  • As in lick : verb play over with fire
  • As in overflow : verb pour out, flood
  • As in overlap : verb lie over something else
  • As in overrun : verb infest, spread over; exceed
  • As in recapitulate : verb go over something again
  • As in repeat : verb duplicate, do again
  • As in review : verb go over again
  • As in scan : verb look over, scrutinize lightly
  • As in spill : verb slop, drop
  • As in trample : verb walk forcibly over
  • As in brim : verb flow over the top
  • As in restate : verb repeat
  • As in tromp : verb trample
  • As in valuate : verb estimate
  • As in dip into : verb try, sample
  • As in estimate : verb guess, try to value
  • As in frisk : verb search
  • As in glance : verb look at briefly
Example sentences :
  • They were running over the surface of a world frozen and dead.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • The house seems full and running over, and niñitas to spare.
  • Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan
  • But the cup was full and running over, and they should rue it!
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • Their cup is full, the measure of their iniquity is pressed down and running over.
  • Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
  • Margaret did wait, running over the keys of the open piano meanwhile.
  • Extract from : « Deerbrook » by Harriet Martineau
  • Running over a floating log might disable our propeller, and we should be helpless then.
  • Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic
  • I was running over to it when I saw those three dreadful skeletons.
  • Extract from : « A Memory Of The Southern Seas » by Louis Becke
  • Some men are brimful and running over with harmonies that will live forever.
  • Extract from : « Outdoor Sketching » by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  • He was running over three or four names of members of that body who were known to him.
  • Extract from : « The Wonder » by J. D. Beresford
  • And running over the events of the day he remembered the French drummer boy.
  • Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy

Antonyms for running over

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