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run over

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run over 
1. to come by for a quick visit. Can you run over for a minute after work? I will run over for a minute as soon as I can.
2. to overflow. The bathtub ran over and there was water all over the floor. She poured the coffee until the cup ran over.
See also: run

run over (something)

to exceed a limit. The lecture ran over the allotted time. Bob ran over the amount he was budgeted to spend.
See also: run

run over someone or something

to drive, steer, or travel so as to pass over someone or something. The bus ran over the fallen man. That car almost ran over my toe.
See also: run

run over somebody/something also run somebody/something over
to drive over someone or something with a vehicle Pfeifer tried to run him over, but Fred luckily escaped. I ran over a rabbit and was in tears all the way home!
See also: run


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However, it's all over at last, and they have run over nothing but an old pig in Southam Street.
Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.
If we'd started up, we'd have run over her in a second.
 
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