Definition of "roll over"

roll over

verb
third-person singular simple present rolls over, present participle rolling over, simple past and past participle rolled over
1. (intransitive) To make a rolling motion or turn.
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  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 he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.
  1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company
2. (transitive) To cause a rolling motion or turn.
3. (intransitive or transitive, usually followed by to) To give in to.
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  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 would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.
  2022 March 1, Joe Biden, State of the Union Address
4. (transitive) To easily overwhelm; to steamroller; to brush aside.
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  Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S. Navy's side, both admirals were dead and only Helena and Fletcher stood any chance in further combat. Abe's remaining forces should've been able to roll straight over them, destroy Henderson Field, and the troop landings would be completed without any further interference.
  2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:45 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2022
5. To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.
6. To reinvest funds from a lottery into a subsequent one, because nobody won it.
7. (transitive, computing) To move the cursor over.
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  In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the user rolls over it.
  2004, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Macromedia Studio MX 2004
8. (intransitive) To increment, especially back to an initial value.
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  […] to check if the system time has rolled over to the next second.
  2001, Mark Lutz, Programming Python: Object-Oriented Scripting
  The dashboard clock rolled over to midnight, and a song lyric popped into my head: lonely midnight drivers, drifting out to sea.
  2005, Michael Koryta, Tonight I Said Goodbye

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roll over

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