verb
beat easily
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The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship
• Derivationally related forms: ↑walkover
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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I. phrasal also walk all over : to disregard the wishes or feelings of : treat badly
in those days the histrionic possibilities of young children were unsuspected by the parents and schoolmasters who walked over them — H.G.Wells
of a racehorse : to go over a course at a walk so as to be judged the winner of a race in which there is no other starter
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walk over
1. To cross or traverse
2. To win an uncontested race
3. To have an easy victory or easy success (informal)
4. To beat easily (informal)
5. (also walk all over) to disregard the rights or feelings of (informal)
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Main Entry: ↑walk
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ˌwalk ˈover [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they walk over he/she/it walks over present participle walking over past tense walked over past participle walked over] phrasal verb
to treat someone badly and to make them do what you want without respect for their feelings
Thesaurus: to show that you do not respect someone or somethingsynonym
Main entry: walk
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informal another way of saying walk all over
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walk over [phrasal verb]
walk (all) over (someone) informal : to not consider the wishes or feelings of (someone) : to treat (someone) very badly
Don't let people walk all over you! Stand up for yourself!
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Main Entry: ↑walk
Useful english dictionary. 2012.