Synonyms of the word

overrule

• v. (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
• v. (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
• v. (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
• v. (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

override

• v. To ride across or beyond something.
• v. To ride a horse too hard.
• v. To counteract the normal operation of something.
• v. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the…
• n. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
• n. A royalty.
• n. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

overthrow

• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
• v. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
• n. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
• n. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
• n. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence…

overturn

• v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
• v. To overthrow or destroy something.
• v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
• v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…