Verb

(en verb)

To modify.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

To improve or rectify.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

To settle an insurance claim.

To change to fit circumstances.

Verb

To ride across or beyond something.

To ride a horse too hard.

To counteract the normal operation of something.

The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .

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The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.

(programming, object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.