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to roll over
to roll over
1. intransitive. Of a period of time: to pass, elapse; to come to an end.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. v. l. 72 That the ȝong child..Thretty lang twelfmonthis rolling[1553 rowing] our sal ryng.
1700 A. Behn Unfortunate Bride 6 Thus they past on some time, while every day rowled over fair.
1771 Generous Husb. or Hist. Lord Lelius 74 Thus all matters being adjusted to mutual satisfaction, the years rolled over in transports.
1839 Operative 13 Jan. 5/4 Come then, and join the Movement..that will,—before 12 months roll over—place England once more in the eyes of all nations.
1868 Galveston iii. 38 All this, reader, took place in much less time than it has taken me to write, or you to read. Minutes rolled over.
1907 J. C. O'Hanlon & E. O'Leary Hist. Queen's County I. iv. i. 347 As centuries rolled over, its boundaries were reduced to a narrower compass.
2008 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. The year rolled over but the lad's stars showed no signs of looking up.
2.
a. intransitive. Of a person or animal lying down: to turn over from one position to another, with a different side uppermost.
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1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus II. 160 The king was crushed by the fury of the stroke, for he lay covered in dirt and blood, and rolled over twice or thrice after he received the blow.
1790 Ann. Agric. 14 442 He [sc. the horse]..flung himself down on the floor, rolled over, groaned, laid for a few minutes on his back.
1854 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 9 209/1 When fat sheep roll over on their backs and cannot get up of themselves they are said to be lying awkward.
1871 G. MacDonald At Back North Wind xxxii. 319 He rolled over on his side to give his legs every possible privilege in their narrow circumstances.
1910 S. E. White in Sunset Apr. 421/1 Bob..rolled over twice with the rapid, vigorous twist second-nature to a seasoned half-back.
1988 D. Madden Birds of Innocent Wood ii. 30 Rolling over in bed, she had whispered into her pillow.
2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad vii. 45 Odysseus was not one of those men who, after the act, simply roll over and begin to snore.
b. transitive. To turn (a person or thing) over on the ground so that a different side is uppermost.
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1817 W. Mariner & J. Martin Acct. Natives Tonga Islands II. xx. 194 He now carefully rolls it over, so that the edges overlapping each other..come uppermost.
1869 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Feb. 164/1 I rolled over the stone, and found an old stave of a barrel.
1889 F. Moore Civil War in Song & Story 309/2 Many who had fired away their sixty rounds of ammunition would coolly roll over the dead and wounded to get their cartridges.
1916 Provisional Drill & Service Regulations for Field Artillery (U.S. War Dept.) IV. x. xii. 120 Roll the bundle over, pass the ends of the rope along the other side of the bundle.
1989 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Apr. a1 The bomb was not discovered until investigators rolled the body over to examine it.
2007 A. Jacob et al. Clin. Nursing Procedures xii. 492 Carefully roll over the patient to prone position.
3. transitive. To cause (a person or animal) to fall over by shooting with a firearm. Now rare.
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1832 Calcutta Mag. July 381 The remaining barrel rolled him over within 15 yards, and I saw no more!
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. viii. 154 I got within range, and with a single ball I rolled him over in the dust.
1888 G. A. Henty Cornet of Horse xii Falling back under a tremendous fire, which rolled over men and horses.
1921 V. Stephansson Friendly Arctic xv. 155 This shot rolled him over and I took the story to be ended.
1943 R. C. Andrews Under Lucky Star xii. 120 A quick shot rolled him over but he was up again in a second.
4.
a. intransitive. To yield without resistance, esp. passively or obsequiously; to give in.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] > give in
descend?a1400
to give up the girdlea1400
submita1525
to give over1530
subscribe1560
yield1576
come1607
to give in1616
to give the stoop1623
buckle1642
incumb1656
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
capitulate1714
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
cave1844
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
incline1866
to give (it) best1878
give way1879
to roll over1919
1919 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 23 May 20/7 The Beavers were expected to roll over and play dead just as soon as the umpire yelled ‘play ball’.
1977 Washington Post 20 Jan. a19 The Senate..is in no mood to roll over for him now.
1990 T. H. Rawls Small Places i. 19 All you have to do is go before the legislature and say, ‘This is good for economic development,’ and they will roll over and give it away.
2007 Rugby World Mar. 42/4 He knows Italy's forwards will provide a stern test... ‘They certainly won't roll over,’ he says.
b. transitive. To defeat easily or resoundingly.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > easily
to eat (also have) (a person or thing) for breakfast1693
to walk over (the course)1823
to run (also make) rings round (also around)1875
to shut out1881
to walk away from1883
to walk round1901
to roll over1937
to walk (all) over (a person)1976
1937 Hammond (Indiana) Times 8 Oct. 1/1 The New York Yankees rolled over..the New York Giants,..5 to 1.
1981 Business Week (Nexis) 27 Apr. 149 Nofziger rolled over similar opposition to win a job..as head of the General Services Administration.
1993 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 15 Oct. a25 The way we rolled over Iraq was a sight to instill fear in the boldest of our enemies.
2005 West Island Suburban (Canada) 26 Oct. 32/1 The North Shore Lions rolled over the Chateauguay Raiders 61-0.
c. intransitive. slang (originally U.S.). To inform on a person to the police; to act as an informer. Also with on.
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1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight ii. 36 I'll roll over on anybody if you give me a break.
1985 N. Pileggi Wiseguy 198 Werner had to roll over on the men he hired to do the robbery.
1996 Sydney Morning Herald 16 Mar. (Suppl.) 11/5 He was warning him not to ‘roll over’ and implicate others in corruption.
2006 Nuts 11 Aug. 44/1 He rolled over and spilled his water the minute he was taken into custody.
d. transitive. Cricket. Of a bowling side: to bowl (an opposing team or player) out for a low score.
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1974 Times 9 Feb. 14/5 Our friend the civil servant sounded him out with a couple of leg-breaks and then rolled him over with a googly.
1983 B. Willis & A. Lee Captain's Diary v. 93 If their three quick bowlers had used the first-day conditions, we might well have been rolled over even more rapidly.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Feb. 8 The home team were rolled over for 75 and England completed an emphatic win by 238 runs.
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a. transitive. Economics. To finance the repayment of (debt or maturing stock) by the issue of new stock.
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1957 Jrnl. Finance 12 52 Since the success of a refunding offer is measured in terms of the percentage of the maturing obligation which is ‘rolled over’ into the new issue, it is required that the Treasury tailor its terms to the needs of the market.
1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Jan. 17/3 Government bond dealers said that they expect the Treasury to announce late this week its plans for refunding nearly $15 billion of Federal debt maturing next month. How the Treasury will roll over these securities is anybody's guess.
1976 Economist 16 Oct. 105/2 Even without any increase in interest rates since early April, 1976, the cost of servicing the national debt was bound to increase..from the need to roll over £2.8 billion of gilt-edged stock due to mature during the year.
2008 Independent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 46 If you include debt that has to be rolled over, the Government will have to sell some £100bn of stock in the next year.
b. transitive. Finance. To extend the period of maturity of (a debt), esp. on account of financial difficulties experienced by the borrower.
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1973 E. S. Mason & E. E. Asher World Bank since Bretton Woods vii. 213 Attempts..to persuade management that creditworthiness should be judged on the basis of the ability of a borrower to pay interest charges, and that normal procedure should be to ‘roll over’ debt when it came due, were doomed to failure.
1983 Fortune 28 Nov. 138/3 Loans that have been rolled over on easy terms obviously are worth less than their face value.
1997 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 31/6 Leading Swiss and Dutch banks also said they would roll over South Korean debt due today.
2008 L. Pulliam Weston Easy Money vii. 129 Buyers who roll over debt have to pay higher interest rates as well.
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a. transitive. To carry over (prize money in a lottery) from one draw to the next, usually because the jackpot has not been won. Cf. rollover n. 2d.
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1982 PR Newswire (Nexis) 17 June The prize structure is determined by total weekly sales, the number of winners in each prize category, and the amount rolled over from the previous week.
1994 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 7/2 If the jackpot is not won it will be ‘rolled over’ until the next week.
2003 N. Brownlee Everything you didn't need to know about UK 180 The UK Lotto jackpot was not won on 28 December so the amount was ‘rolled over’ to 2 January.
b. intransitive. Of prize money in a lottery: to be carried over from one draw to the next.
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1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 10 Nov. If no one has all the numbers, the jackpot rolls over and increases until someone gets all the numbers.
1990 Jrnl. Econ. Perspectives 4 116 If a drawing has no jackpot winner, the money in that jackpot rolls over into the jackpot for the next drawing.
2002 Sun 27 May 26/1 Our £1,000 jackpot hasn't been won since Wednesday and the total has rolled over to £4,000.
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