Usually means: Vehicle strikes and injures someone.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word run over:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. run over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run-over: Merriam-Webster
  3. run over: Collins English Dictionary
  4. run over: Vocabulary.com
  5. run-over: Wordnik
  6. run over, run over (sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. run over: Wiktionary
  8. run over: Dictionary.com
  9. Run over: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. run over: Rhymezone
  11. run over: FreeDictionary.org
  12. run over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. run over: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. run over: Merriam-Webster
  15. run over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. run over: Legal dictionary
  2. run over: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run over: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run over: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (run over)

verb:  (idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
verb:  (transitive) To cross by running.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To overflow.
verb:  (rugby) To score a try.
verb:  (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.

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