roll over
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reinvest funds from a lottery into a subsequent one, in the event that a prize was not won.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The mob rolled the car over."
- "He doesn't meekly roll over to all her demands."
- "I'm not going to roll over this time."
- "Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people."