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OVERRODE

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

OVERRODE is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

OVERRODE root OVERRIDE

Word family

OVERRIDE 11 OVERRIDES-s 11 OVERRIDING 11 OVERRIDDEN 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo ride across or beyond something.
  2. transitiveTo ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
  3. transitiveTo ride a horse too hard.
  4. intransitivetransitiveTo counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
    • In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
    • Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
  5. transitiveTo give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
    • Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
  6. transitiveTo define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
    • 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.
noun
  1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
  2. A royalty.
  3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
  4. A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.