Synonyms for running over

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : ruhn

Phonetic Transcription : rʌn

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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