OVERRIDE Synonyms: 150 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of override

as in veto

the doing away with something by formal action Citizens are advocating for a congressional override of the president's proposal.

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to make (something) no longer valid Don't let the anticipatory anxiety override your excitement about starting grad school. Upper management reserves the right to override any decisions made by supervisors.

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as in to run over

to knock down and drive over They overrode the picket fence with their pickup in a hasty but effective escape.

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Noun

This veto override scenario would require a special session be called because the legislative session has ended, and the Legislature has 60 days from Newsom’s veto to override it. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026 In 2017, Alabama abolished judicial override and stopped allowing judges to change juries' sentencing decision in capital cases. — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Verb

The league's filing comes as New Jersey challenges a federal appeals court ruling that favored Kalshi's position that federal commodities law overrides state gambling regulations. — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 There are others who use a pricing service and they’re allowed to override a certain percentage of those marks. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for override

Recent Examples of Synonyms for override

Noun

Lamont is required to notify the legislature leaders, who have a veto that never has been used.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026
The City Council voted 33-17 on Wednesday to override Johnson's veto, one vote shy of the 34 required to do so.

— Todd Feurer, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of veto

Verb

The Kansas State High School Activities Association said its scheduled flag football state championship has been suspended, along with any other of its matches through the weekend.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
Oliver is on the ballot alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue, who called for his running mate to suspend his campaign shortly after news of his arrest became public.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of suspend

Verb

Last October, a Waymo ran over and killed KitKat, beloved longtime denizen of Randa’s Market, a liquor store.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Those who thought the Los Angeles Dodgers and their massive payroll were going to waltz into Milwaukee and run over the Brewers were wrong.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of run over

Noun

Voters, though, decisively defeated a repeal measure in 1942.

— Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 15 Oct. 2026
Several Florida residents traveled to the meeting to voice their support for Ladapo and the vaccine repeal, thanking him for standing up for parents’ rights and even asking him for a selfie.

— Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of repeal

Verb

The Republican governor did not provide a reason for withdrawing Thompson’s death warrant but had temporarily stayed his execution last month pending a psychiatric evaluation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
According to online court records, two of the three cases were settled and one was withdrawn.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of withdraw

Verb

Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamp

Verb

Classes, activities and athletic events across Bend-La Pine Schools are canceled tomorrow, the district announced.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Ossoff last year also pressed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin for canceling public health and environmental grants.

— Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cancel

Verb

In Tirana this week, protesters smashed windows, set alight government buildings and clashed with police.

— Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Federal officials maintain the immigration officers believed their lives were in danger and opened fire only after Belgal smashed his car into two government vehicles and accelerated toward them.

— Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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