🚫 To overrule 🔧 A control switch 🕹️ To take control 🐎 To overwork a horse

to override

3 8.6

To ride a horse too hard or too long until it becomes exhausted

verb
/ˌoʊvərˈraɪd/

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The trainer had to be careful not to override the horse during the long ride to prevent exhaustion.

Examples

If you override the horse too much, it could lead to serious injury and fatigue.
He often overrides his horse for several hours without considering its well-being.
I would not use only ace in these horses; they are more than likely to override it when they get stressed out, and then you will have a drugged, disinhibited, violent semi-wild horse on your hands, and someone will get hurt.

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Synonyms

to overtire

vsto override

3 6.8

To make someone very tired by doing too much

focuses on riding animals, stressing long riding that exhausts them

to overdrive

vsto override

1 6.3

To make someone work too hard until they are tired

applies to riding animals, causing exhaustion and physical harm

to overstretch

vsto override

1 5.5

To push someone or something beyond what they can manage

means making riding animals work past safe limits and causing harm

to overstrain

vsto override

6.5

To push yourself or something too hard so it breaks and you become very tired

refers to riding animals until they become exhausted or injured

Antonyms

rest

703 1.0

A period when you stop activity to relax or sleep

How Harsh

abuse

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686 3.2

overwork

5 4.6

to override

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3 8.6

to handle with care

4 3.5

Surface Forms

override infinitive

overriding present participle

overrides third person singular

overrode past

overridden past participle

Morphology

override = ride (transparent) = over + ride

This is a literal use of 'over' (excessively) + 'ride' (to ride), so the meaning 'to ride too hard' is directly compositional.

Etymology

Override first meant to ride a horse too hard — over- 'too much' plus ride 'to ride' — so it meant wearing out a horse, and from that idea of going 'too far' the word later grew other meanings.