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overridden

/ˌəʊ.vəˈɹɪdn̩/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To ride across or beyond something.
  2. To ride a horse too hard.
  3. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
  4. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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