Word.ws English Dictionary

ride over

ride over verb: synonym of ride roughshod over.

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.
    • 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!1871, James Hurnard, The setting sun, a poem, page 86

Synonyms of ride over

Forms of ride over

third-person singular presentrides over
present participleriding over
pastrode over
past participleridden over

Questions about ride over

What does ride over mean?
Ride over means synonym of ride roughshod over.
What part of speech is ride over?
Ride over is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride over?
The past tense of ride over is rode over.

Words near ride over in the dictionary

  1. ride one's luck
  2. ride or die
  3. ride or dies
  4. ride out
  5. ride out the storm
  6. ride over
  7. ride pass
  8. ride passes
  9. ride pillion
  10. ride rantipole
  11. ride roughshod over

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ride over (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ride over.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ride_over. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.