roll over
verb
- surrender
- rolling physically
Wiktionary
verb
- To make a rolling motion or turn.
“The car rolled completely over.”
“That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy’s bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.”
- To cause a rolling motion or turn.
“The mob rolled the car over.”
- To give in to.
“He doesn't meekly roll over to all her demands.”
“I'm not going to roll over this time.”
- To easily overwhelm; to steamroller; to brush aside.
“Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S. Navy's side, both admirals were dead and only Helena and Fletcher stood any chance in further combat. Abe's remaining forces should've been able to roll straight over them, destroy Henderson Field, and the troop landings would be completed without any further interference.”
- To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.
- To reinvest funds from a lottery into a subsequent one, in the event that a prize was not won.
- To move the cursor over.
“In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the user rolls over it.”
- To increment, especially back to an initial value.
“[…] to check if the system time has rolled over to the next second.”
“The dashboard clock rolled over to midnight, and a song lyric popped into my head: lonely midnight drivers, drifting out to sea.”