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Overriding   /ˈoʊvərrˌaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Overriding

adjective
1.
Having superior power and influence.  Synonyms: paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating.


Override

verb
(past overrode; past part. overridden; pres. part. overriding)
1.
Rule against.  Synonyms: overrule, overthrow, overturn, reverse.
2.
Prevail over.
3.
Counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle).
4.
Ride (a horse) too hard.





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"Overriding" Quotes from Famous Books



... the key to your success. Depew is very capable and a partisan of his party. If you have any doubt, I beg of you to withhold the appointment until the question comes up in the Senate of sustaining or overriding of the veto of the Civil Rights Bill. The votes of the two New York senators will decide whether they are your friends or not.' The president thought that was reasonable, and you ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew
... for the symmetry of this book, it would close with the notes. But the times are such that patriotism—not free from solicitude—urges a claim overriding all literary scruples. ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... this work the chute supplying the blanks to the machine should be made of two fireclay sides, with an opening for the flame between the chute and flame being placed at a sharp angle, to prevent risk of the blanks sticking or overriding each other. A blowpipe may also be used with good effect, as shown in the above engraving, and in many cases it is preferable and much ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various
... be hid from you that there is one overriding and insistent peril which ought to put an end to all your misunderstandings. There is a young man in this land, more powerful than you or the King, or, indeed, all the powers legalised and established within the ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... sympathizer. I told you I would not incite rebellion against you, and that I would not interfere with native custom or your authority so long as acquiescence and obedience by me did not run counter to the overriding law ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy


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