OVERRODE Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

overrode

verb

past tense of override

as in vetoed

to make (something) no longer valid Don't let the anticipatory anxiety override your excitement about starting grad school.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 stamped

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

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Recent Examples of overrode This time Reynolds and other conservatives convinced Reagan to veto the initial legislation reversing the decision, but Congress overrode his veto, with support from nearly half of Senate Republicans. —

Ronald Brownstein, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026 President Wilson put up a fight, but the lawmakers overrode his veto, and that was that. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026 The company overrode those warnings for commercial reasons. —

Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026 Nixon vetoed the 1973 legislation, but Congress overrode it. —

Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026 Rauner vetoed it, but the House and Senate overrode him. —

Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026 Parker told Fox News Digital that FBI agents worked with Department of Defense contractors in foreign countries to screen Afghans, but the State Department repeatedly overrode security concerns. —

Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025 Local leaders said the last shutdown showdown left the District with a roughly $1 billion budget hole after Congress overrode its local spending plans. —

Aris Folley, The Hill, 24 Aug. 2025 Keep in mind — this is on top of what was already one of the highest per-pupil spending rates in the entire country before the General Assembly passed the Blueprint over Republican opposition and overrode a vetro from then-Governor Larry Hogan. —

Justin Ready, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2024

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It was vetoed, the override failed, and Chicago entered another summer with the same insufficient tools as the last.

— Desmon Yancy, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
The police cuts proposal drew a rebuke from Larry Calderone, head of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, on Monday, and Wu has vetoed Council public safety cuts to police and fire in recent years.

— Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026