Overridden

verb

/ˌəʊ.vəˈɹɪdn̩/

Word Frequency: 0.5

Definitions

1.verbTo ride across or beyond something.

2.verbTo ride a horse too hard.

3.verbTo counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.

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

4.verbTo define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

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