ride over

English

Verb

ride over (third-person singular simple present rides over, present participle riding over, simple past rode over, past participle ridden over)

  1. Synonym of ride roughshod over.
    • 1871, James Hurnard, The setting sun, a poem, page 86:
      This trampler upon human rights is — Fashion.
      Strange that mankind should love a despotism,
      And while they kick against one kind of rule,
      Should uncomplainingly endure another, […]
      They yet should pay a tyrant to ride over them,
      Saddling themselves with never ending taxes!
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