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Plural of override

regular plural

The plural of override is overrides.

Forms of override

Singularoverride /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/
Pluraloverrides
Countablecountable

Overrides in a sentence

  • The power of the stories overrides everything else.2013 February 17, Bob Greene, “America’s ‘Slave Narratives’ should shock us”, in CNN
  • 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.
  • He steadfastly asserted that languages were human institutions, the communicative purpositivity of which overrides all else.2009, Harro Stammerjohann, “William Dwight Whitney”, in Lexicon Grammaticorum: A Bio-Bibliographical Companion to the History of…. From the entry purpositivity
  • It's an ideology that claims to have the absolute truth about why there's disparity in the world and, hence, overrides the need for societal debate about such matters.2022, David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews. From the entry successor ideology
  • Methods of staffing and staff utilization in most public schools suggest that there is a quality—called "teacherness," perhaps—which, when a person becomes a teacher, overrides all his individuating qualities.1972, Rodney Pennell Smith, Richard A. Dempsey, Differentiated staffing, page 2. From the entry teacherness

Meaning of override

  1. verb To ride across or beyond something.
  2. verb To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
  3. verb To ride a horse too hard.

Full definition of override

Questions about the plural of override

What is the plural of override?
The plural of override is overrides.
Is override countable?
Override is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: override (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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