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roll over

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See also:rolloverandroll-over

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Verb

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roll over (third-person singular simple presentrolls over,present participlerolling over,simple past and past participlerolled over)

(intransitive) To make arollingmotion orturn.
The carrolled completelyover.
- 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:
  That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy’s bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes herolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.
(transitive) Tocause arolling motion orturn.
The mobrolled the carover.
(intransitive or transitive, usually followed byto) Togive in to.
He doesn'tmeeklyroll over to all herdemands.
I'm not going toroll over this time.
- 2022 March 1,Joe Biden,State of the Union Address:
  Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world wouldroll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.
(transitive) Toeasilyoverwhelm; tosteamroller; tobrush aside.
- 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:45 from the start, inGuadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎^[1], archived fromthe original on7 November 2022:
  Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S. Navy's side, both admirals were dead and onlyHelena andFletcher stoodany chance in further combat. Abe's remaining forcesshould've been able toroll straightover them, destroy Henderson Field, and the troop landings would be completed without any further interference.
Toreinvest funds from amaturing financial security in the same or similarinvestment.
(gambling) Toreinvest funds from alottery into asubsequent one,in the event that aprize was notwon.
(transitive, computing) To move thecursor over.
- 2004, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell,Macromedia Studio MX 2004:
  In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the userrolls over it.
(intransitive) Toincrement, especially back to an initial value.
- 2001, Mark Lutz,Programming Python: Object-Oriented Scripting:
  […] to check if the system time hasrolled over to the next second.
- 2005, Michael Koryta,Tonight I Said Goodbye:
  The dashboard clockrolled over to midnight, and a song lyric popped into my head: lonely midnight drivers, drifting out to sea.