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override: a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device; ride (a horse) too hard; counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle); prevail over; "health considerations override financial concerns"

overlie collapse: kill by lying on; "The sow overlay her piglets"; lie upon; lie on top of; "the granite overlies the older rocks"

overrule collapse: rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"

lord it over collapse: act like the master of; "He is lording it over the students"

trample collapse: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet"; injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"

abolish collapse: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

outclass collapse: cause to appear in a lower class; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati"

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

outshine collapse: attract more attention and praise than others; "This film outshone all the others in quality"; shine brighter than; "What star outshines the sun?"

walk over collapse: beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"

invalidate collapse: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"; show to be invalid; declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

overawe collapse: subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

overhang collapse: projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else; be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"; project over

coerce collapse: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"

browbeat collapse: discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

outrun collapse: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

tyrannize collapse: rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her"; rule a country as a tyrant