1. Injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
   "The truck ran over a stray dog";
   - run down
    
2. Flow or run over (a limit or brim)
   "The pot ran over with boiling water";
   - overflow, overrun, well over, brim over
    
3. Give a summary (of)
   "Let me run over the main points quickly";
   - sum up, summarize, summarise [Brit]
    
4. Exceed, esp. a time limit
   "the talk ran over by ten minutes"

Derived forms: running over, ran over, runs over, run over

See also: course

Type of: ingeminate [archaic], injure, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, run out, spill, wound

Encyclopedia: Run over