Word.ws English Dictionary

running roughshod over

running roughshod over is the present participle and gerund of run roughshod over.

Meaning of run roughshod over

Verb

run roughshod over (third-person singular simple present runs roughshod over, present participle running roughshod over, simple past ran roughshod over, past participle run roughshod over)

  1. Synonym of ride roughshod over.
    • [I]f the demos really were like a passionate drunk, willing and able to run roughshod over minorities, then it might also be willing and able to run roughshod over the judiciary or the constitution.2014, Jacob T. Levy, “The Constitutional Entrenchment of Federalism”, in James E. Fleming, Jacob T. Levy, editors, Federalism and Subsidiarity, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press...

Questions about running roughshod over

What is running roughshod over the present participle and gerund of?
Running roughshod over is the present participle and gerund of run roughshod over.

Words near running roughshod over in the dictionary

  1. running rigging
  2. running riggings
  3. running rings around
  4. running riot
  5. running room
  6. running roughshod over
  7. running sand
  8. running scared
  9. running script
  10. running scripts
  11. running serviceberries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: running roughshod over (page history and authors); run roughshod 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: “running roughshod over.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/running_roughshod_over. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.